1800s Reform Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account of some passage in Scripture, badly distorted to their purpose, will dare to censure and assail what I have presented here. — Nicolaus Copernicus

It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own. — Raymond Pettibon

Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher. — Demetri Martin

Numbness is not happiness. — Marty Rubin

Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of ... I write songs and then almost ... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from. — Ellie Goulding

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. — Charley Pride

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. — Leigh Hunt

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing! — Oral Roberts