J.W. Lord Quotes

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

To have joy, one must share it.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Socialism means slavery.

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

To measure is to know.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.