J.W. Lord Quotes

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

I'm the type that'll give any man a chance to come correct before leavin in a ambulance

Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

You know only insofar as you can measure.

There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.

Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.

If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.

This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

Business is the most exciting game.

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

Attain the unattainable.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

For love reflects the thing beloved.

The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.

Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

The thrall in person may be free in soul

Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.