1791 Society Quotes & Sayings

Learn to think BIG but start small. All the big projects eventually started with a single step. — Petronela Zainuddin

the present moment is all we can call our own for works of mercy, of righteous dealing, and of family tenderness. All — George Eliot

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. — Bob Dylan

The madman's explanation of a thing is always complete, and often in a purely rational sense satisfactory. Or, to speak more strictly, the insane explanation, if not conclusive, is at least unanswerable; this may be observed specially in the two or three commonest kinds of madness. If a man says (for instance) that men have a conspiracy against him, you cannot dispute it except by saying that all the men deny that they are conspirators; which is exactly what conspirators would do. His explanation covers the facts as much as yours. Or if a man says that he is the rightful King of England, it is no complete answer to say that the existing authorities call him mad; for if he were King of England that might be the wisest thing for the existing authorities to do. Or if a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's. — G.K. Chesterton

All roads lead to success. Yours...or someone else's — Chris Martinez

I look like a biker slut from hell meets soldier of fortune pinup. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept. — Sidney Crosby

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it. — Richie Benaud

Was there something distinctive about American civil society that gave democracy a better chance than in France, as Tocqueville argued? Was the already centralized French state more likely to produce a Napoleon than the decentralized United States? We cannot be sure. But it is not unreasonable to ask how long the US constitution would have lasted if the United States had suffered the same military and economic strains that swept away the French constitution of 1791 — Niall Ferguson

Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock! — Duncan Jones

The book of experience has no pages, but a lifelong lesson. Page 158 — Duc Du Clos

The best things in life are making mistakes, because we can learn from it. — Jan Jansen