H.W. Charles Quotes

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

The secret of my success is longevity.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

too often, the only escape is sleep

There are male as well as female gossips.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

You are saved - seek to be like your Savior.

dogs and angels are not very far apart

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.