S.G. Browne Quotes

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

I don’t understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I’m as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

You have to be willing to work harder and sacrifice more than most to become one of the top fighters.

We all have trials and tribulations and that shows who we are as a person.

Death is the reward for living

It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.

Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.

Opposites attract - and then aggravate.

I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

You can't deny somebody that's a hard worker. You can't deny somebody that just digs down as deep as they can.

I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

My kids are funny. They won't eat the heels on a loaf of bread. So I patiently explained to them that they eat rolls, and rolls are all crust, just like heels...and now they won't eat rolls!

Confession is a kind of pride.

Overwork tires; underwork wearies.

Find out what people want and help them get it.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

America rules the world - by force.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.

I just keep my horrible side well hidden.

You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.