Herbert Quotes

Sum up at night what thou has done by day.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."

Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.

A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.

If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end.

Show me a liar and I will show thee a thief.

There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.

Steal the hog and give the feet for alms.

Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

Poverty is no sin.

Prayer to the patriarchs and prophets was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills with unshakable confidence.

He that will learn to pray let him go to Sea.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame and the brunt of the storm.

He that will learn to pray let him go to sea.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their ancestors.

A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is - try to please everybody.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is-try to please everybody.

Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... do big things.

Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.

Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

All socialism involves slavery.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.