H.W. Charles Quotes

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Do you recall that night in June Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the ländler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

Long live free Quebec!

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Doctors may have told you there is no hope for you medically, but you can always find supernatural HOPE from God's Word.

It just seems that if you hang on for a while longer, there is always something bright around the corner, or the dark clouds will go away and there will be sunshine again.

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.