M.K. Alexander Quotes

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

True self-love and social are the same.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out there - to make things that haven't been made before.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.

Hopeful men do not die so easily.