Will Carleton Quotes

I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.

Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!

Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

There's lots of people - this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.