H.P. Oliver Quotes
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.
A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.
Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well
When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.
I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.