Famous Oliver Hardy Quotes & Sayings

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God. — Epictetus

What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It's the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage. — Billy Graham

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves. — John Dos Passos

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with. — Aldous Huxley

Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone. — Brene Brown

Moyers: But if God is the god we have only imagined, how can we stand in awe of our own creation?
Campbell: How can we be terrified by a dream? You have to break past your image of God to get through to the connoted illumination. The psychologist Jung has a relevant saying: "Religion is a defense against the experience of God."
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There is a Hindu saying, "None but a god can worship a god." You have to identify yourself in some measure with whatever spiritual principle your god represents to you in order to worship him properly and live according to his word. — Joseph Campbell

Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years. — Andy Borowitz

Jesus wants you to come as you are but not stay as you are. — DeBorrah K. Ogans

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race. — Janet Evanovich

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated. — John Herschel

How can German music not be represented by an article? — Wassily Kandinsky

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth. — Joshua Ferris