Showing posts with label Herbert Hoover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herbert Hoover. Show all posts

Friday, September 25, 2009

Quotes (#489)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to
be understood. Now is the time to understand
more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

"Love is composed of a single
soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle

"There it was, hidden
in alphabetical order."
- Rita Holt

"Honor is not the exclusive property
of any political party."
- Herbert Hoover

"Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed, and some
few to be chewed and digested."
- Francis Bacon

"Waters are distilled out of Herbs,
Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."
- Nicholas Culpeper

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Quotaria

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are
the window through which you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

There are no shortcuts to
any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills


We know what a person thinks
not when he tells us what he
thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"If there is no struggle,
there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass

"Children are our most
valuable natural resource."
- Herbert Hoover

“Science is the belief in the
ignorance of the experts”
- Richard P. Feynman

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Quotes

"I have tried to know absolutely
nothing about a great many things,
and I have succeeded fairly well."
- Robert Benchley

"Water, air, and cleanness are the
chief articles in my pharmacy."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I love not man the less,
but Nature more."
- Lord Byron


"The Amen of nature is always a flower."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"About the time we can make the ends
meet, somebody moves the ends."
- Herbert Hoover


"We have, I fear, confused
power with greatness."
- Stewart Udall