H.P. Oliver Quotes
Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Use what talents you have the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.
Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug or throw themselves down before they always did they always will and if you don't make it of wood you must make it of words.
A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.
