Readmissions Within 30 Quotes & Sayings

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A brick could be slid on a wood floor, like a rolling bowling ball, in an attempt to fill the seconds between swallows of beer. — Jarod Kintz

When Carri died, I felt like I had lost everything, except my life, and my memories of her. Now I can't even dream of her ... — Richard Finney

There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is "guts." — Louis Adamic

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches! — William Makepeace Thackeray

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. — John Philpot Curran