H. L. Burke Quotes
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?
If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?
A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.
I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.
The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.
For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.
Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
