Annaberg Historic Trail Quotes & Sayings

Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an attack on all the accepted verities as was healthful.

Samuel wrote to Joe, sayings, "I would be disappointed if you had not become an atheist, and I read pleasantly that you have, in your age and wisdom, accepted agnosticism the way you'd take a cookie on a full stomach. But I would ask you with all my understanding heart not to try to convert your mother. Your last letter only made her think you are not well. Your mother does not believe there are many ills uncurable by good strong soup. She puts your brave attack on the structure of our civilization down to a stomach ache. It worries her. Her faith is a mountain, and you, my son, haven't even got a shovel yet. — John Steinbeck

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father's estate — Chinua Achebe

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. — John Bartlett

When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides

Time is nothing. — Audrey Niffenegger

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. — Dwight D. Eisenhower