J.W. Lord Quotes

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Silence, beautiful voice.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

The mills of God grind slowly.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Love is the only gold.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

I am not now That which I have been.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

Happiness was born a twin.

I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

For always roaming with a hungry heart.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.