Oliver $ Quotes

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.

Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

I like the effect drink has on me. What's the point of staying sober?

Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

If you care too much about what others think then you ultimately become what you think they want you to be.

Big matches on the big stage are often decided at the back.

It looked pretty wild, but I was actually in control of myself. I've never really injured anyone throughout my career.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. The-End-is-Nigh guy blinked. "Ah, maybe, I don’t know.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Those who think must govern those that toil.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.