Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hubert H. Humphrey

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

Hubert H. Humphrey

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

Hubert H. Humphrey

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

Ian Lowe

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

James Hillman

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

Euripides

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

Leave no stone unturned.

Errol Flynn

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Errol Flynn

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

Errol Flynn

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

Errol Flynn

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

Errol Flynn

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

Errol Flynn

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

Errol Flynn

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Errol Flynn

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

Errol Flynn

I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.

Errol Flynn

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

Germaine Greer

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Germaine Greer

Act quickly, think slowly.

Harry Dean Stanton

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Horace

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Horace

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Herbie Hancock

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

Herbert Spencer

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

Herbert Spencer

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Herman Melville

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

Herman Melville

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

Herman Melville

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Herman Melville

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

Herb Caen

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Henry David Thoreau

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.