Old Quaker Quotes & Sayings

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities. — Carl Jung

Was polite, he held the door open for women and paid for dinner. Not because they were the lesser class or couldn't do it themselves, but because it was the respectful thing to do, because women were precious, women were to be praised, women were to be shown that a woman with a good heart would be rewarded with a man with a respectful soul for her. Dawson — Shelly Crane

I thought you two used to be pretty good friends back in high school?"

Clay lifted his mug again, his facial expression was not giving any indication of the amusement he felt. He thought someone needed to knock the hell out of Quinn Mason for a long time, and looked like Caleb was the one to do it. Quinn deserved it from Caleb, if for nothing more than the fact he had stuck his dick in the guy's sister. That was always a cause for an ass whooping between friends. — Alex Morgan

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years. — Leonard Cohen

I think the best way to escape your head isn't to think about things that aren't real, it's to think about things that are and then imagine them happening to people who aren't you. — Ben Brooks

I lit a candle in a Catholic church for the first time that afternoon. Me, a Presbyterian. I lit a candle in the warm, dark, waxy-smelling air of Saint Adelbert's. I put it beside the one that Mrs. Baker lit. I don't know what she prayed for, but I prayed that no atomic bomb would ever drop on Camillo Junior High or the Quaker meetinghouse or the old jail or Temple Emmanuel or Hicks Park or Saint Paul's Episcopal School or Saint Adelbert's. I prayed for Lieutenant Baker, missing in action somewhere in the jungles of Vietnam near Khesanh. I prayed for Danny Hupfer, sweating it out in Hebrew school right then. I prayed for my sister, driving in a yellow bug toward California - or maybe she was there already, trying to find herself. And I hoped that it was okay to pray for a bunch of things with one candle. — Gary D. Schmidt

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry. — Louis L'Amour

Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities, of men like Goethe ... who seem to forge their own destinies, who seem to move unhampered by those burdens of existence which keep most men from rising above the vicissitudes of their daily toil. — John Carroll

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art. — Ivan Turgenev

Don't just act with kindness, think with kindness. — Elaina Marie

No generalization is wholly true - not even this one. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If Europe does not advance, it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map ... My duty is to bring Europe out of its lethargy. — Francois Hollande

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric. — John F. Kerry

I Love Spirituality it reminds me of the Old Quaker Oats Commercial. "Nothing is better for thee than me"! — Stanley Victor Paskavich