J.W. Lord Quotes

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Great men are almost always bad men.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Your wig steers the gig.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there you jolly well are, aren't you?

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Eternity forbids thee to forget.

A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.