S.G. Browne Quotes

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

Plant now the roses of Hope, Love, Promise, God Consciousness, and the Glory of your Soul.

One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep!

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

In the course of our eternal existence, we spend infinitely more time in the spirit world on the other side than we spend in the human world on earth.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.

I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone’s dressed down. So actually putting on a jacket is the anti-­Establishment stance.

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.

The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

You are where you are today because youve chosen to be there.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.