James Blaine Quotes & Sayings

My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else. — John Wooden

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do. — Heather King

Nothing is so weakening as regret. — James G. Blaine

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My toes are going to come,
-Mariann
The Night Owl — Emma Holly

Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing. — Hank Azaria

Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose ... whether legislation shall be in the interest of the American free laborer or for the servile laborer from China ... You cannot work a man who must have beef and bread, and would prefer beer, alongside a man who can live on rice. — James G. Blaine

Simple people ... listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase. — Elfriede Jelinek