M.K. Alexander Quotes

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.

In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.

Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.

[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

The path to joy leads through despair.

Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

When I know that I have played as well as I can. It doesn't matter so much whether I have won or lost. But being completely satisfied with myself? That's something that never really happens to me.

There is plenty of work for love to do.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

Beauty draws us with a single hair.

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Health consists with temperance alone.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.