J.W. Lord Quotes
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!
Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.
Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.
Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.
It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.
If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.
I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.
You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.
I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine
Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet
