1772 American Quotes & Sayings

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry. — Euclid

Still, children hope in ways adults find hard to imagine. They carry their dreams before them, fragile, in both arms, waiting for the world to trip them. — Mark Lawrence

There aren't many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places. Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours. It's your fault we're here to deal with the void in the first place. — Melissa Broder

God grows the Church through holiness in Christians. — David Platt

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike

Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that. — Ted Cruz

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time. — Marabel Morgan

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players. — Robin Trower

(Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you. — Christopher Hitchens