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But as good as you arc, and as bad as I am,
I am as good as you are, as bad as I am.
OLD SCOTCH TOAST.
There is so much Devil in the best of us
And so much Angel in the worst of us
That it doesn’t become any of us
To say much about the rest of us.
W. S. Childs 1904
May you live all the days of your life.
SWIFT –--- Polite Conversation
Here is a toast that I want to give fo a fellow I’ll never know;
To the fellow who’s going to take my place when it’s time for me to go.
Louis E. Thayer ------To My Successor
May all your labors be in vein.
YORKSHIRE MINER’S TOAST
Little tube of mighty pow’r,
Charmer of an idle hour,
Object of my warm desire.
ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE—
A Pipe of Tobacco
A woman is only a woman,
but a good cigar is a smoke.
KIPLING—’The Betrothed
For thy sake, tobacco, I
Would do anything but die.
LAMB----A Farewell to Tobacco
What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.
Thomas R. Marshall - - Remark to John Crocket, Chief Clerk U.S. Senate
Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctors’ spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
And lap me in delight.
CHARLES SPRAGUE—
To my Cigar
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.
It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.
WILDE----Picture of Darien Gray
We are here today and gone tomorrow. ANONYMOUS
Out of Eternity
The new Day is born;
Into Eternity
At night will return.
CARLYLE— Today
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d today.
DBYDEN— Imitation of Horace
One today is worth two tomorrows. FRANKLIN
Tomorrow, life is too late: live today. MARTIAL
We shall do so much in the years to come,
But what have we done today?
We shall give our gold in a princely sum,
But what did we give today?
NIXON \WATERMAN— Have We Done Today?
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. SENECA
There’s a time for all things. Shakespeare----Comedy of Errors. Act II, Sc. 2
Make use of time, let not advantage slip. SHAKESPEARE— Venus and Adonis
A wonderful stream is the River Time,
As it runs through the realms of Tears,
With a faultless rhythm, and a musical rhyme,
As it blends with the ocean of Years.
BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR— The Long Ago
Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Craved a maxim true and wise,
Which if held before the eyes
Gave him counsel at a glance
Fit for every change and chance.
Solemn words, and these are they:
”Even this shall pass away.”
THEODORE TILTON— T he King’s Ring
Some have meat, and canna cat,
And some wad cat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sac the Lord be thankit.
BURNS— The Selkirk Grace
Here’s a sigh to these who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And whatever sky’s above me,
Here’s a heart for every fate.
BYRON—Letter to Thomas Moore
Ho! stand to your glasses steady!
‘Tis all we have left to prize.
A cup to the dead already,—
Hurrah for the next that dies.
BARTHOLOMEW DOWLING–Revelry in India
Here’s to your good health, and your family’s good health, and may you all
live long and prosper. IRVING— Rip Van Winkle
A glass is good, and a lass is good,
And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;
The world is good and the people are good,
And we’re all good fellows together.
JOHN O’KEEFE----Sprigs of Laurel
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. PROVERBS. I. 10
The way of transgressors is hard. PROVERBS XIII. 15.
The wages of sin is death. ROMANS. VI. 23
There is no sin. There are only stages of development.
TIBETAN PROVERB
But he who never sins can little boast.
Compared to him who goes and sins no more!
N. P. WILLIS— The Lady Jane
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. FROUDE---- Short Studies on Great Subjects
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity
on self-examination. MENCIUS
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing,
and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
WILDE— The Critics as Artist.
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
CARLYLE— Heros and Hero-Worship.
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon opinion even as more probable or likely than another. HUME--- Treatise on Human Nature
Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. LATIN PROVERB
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop’d we live and die,
Lift not your hands to it for help for it
As impotently moves as you or I.
OMAR KHAYYAM— Rubaiyat
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same
For two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity. RU SKIN— The Sky
I hate the man who builds his name, On ruins of another’s fame.
GAY— The Poet and the Rose
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one—it flies as well as creeps.
DOUGLAS JERR0LD— Slander
Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirty hands.
----JOSEPH PARKER
I am disgrac’d, impeach’d and baffled here,—
Pierc’d to the soul with slander’s venosn’d spear.
SHAKESPEARE—Richard II. Act I. Sc. 1.
A slander is like a hornet;
if you cannot kill it dead the first blow,
better not strike at it.
H. W. Shaw
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave,
the other end fastens itself around your own
.EMERSON— Compensation
Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves. ---DAVID GARRICK
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties atrocious criminality, and should be immediately annulled. -----WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
The man who gives us employment,.
which I must have or suffer,
that man is my master,
let me call him what I will.
HENRY GEORGE— Social Problems
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
LINCOLN ---Speech, 1858
They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
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They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
LOWELL—Stanzas on Freedom
They (the blacks) had no right which the white man was bound to respect.
ROGER B. TANNY—The Dred Scott Case
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the
Government and public opinion allow them to do.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW— Man and Superman
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Beethoven —Letter, 1811.
I have never known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.
CICERO
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time
being a great philosopher . COLERIDGE
All men are poets at heart..... EMERSON—.Literary Ethics
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. —GOETHE
The man is either mad or he is making verse. ----HORACE
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
-----LONGFELLOW
All that is best in the great poets of our countries
is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
LONGFELLOW —Kavanagh
Every man is a poet when he is in love. ---PLATO— S ymposium
Poets have a license to lie. -----PLINY TIlE YOUNGER
Poetry is the Devil’s wine. —ST. AUGUSTINE
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
CARLYLE— Heros and Hero-Worship
Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most. —CONGREVE
All that is not prose passes for poetry. —CRABBE
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
JOHN FLETCHER— Queen of Corinth
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. ---GILFILLAN
Let your poem be kept nine years. —HORACE
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand
Canyon and waiting for the echo. ---DON MARQUIS— The Sun Dial
With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion. POE
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
SHELLEY—Letter to Thomas L. Peacock
I was promised on a time,
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.
SPENSER—Lines on His Promised Pension
The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.
H. M. T0MLINs0N— Between the Lines
One merit of poetry few persons will deny:
it says more and in fewer words than prose.
VOLTAIRE --- A Philosophical Dictionary
One man’s meat is another’s poison.
ENGLISH PROVERB
The man recover’d of the bite, The dog it was that died.
GOLDSMITH—Elegy On the Death of a Mad Dog
It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.
ENGLISH PROVERB ---POLITENESS
The superior man is polite but not cringing;
the common man is cringing but not polite.
CONFUCIUS
Politeness is the chief sign of culture.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
A man’s hat in his hand never did him any harm.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. --MACAULAY
A politician is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. ANONYMOUS
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. JOHN ARBUTHNOT
Man is by nature a civic animal. ----ARISTOTLE
Don’t throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.
---- PHILADER JOHNSON
We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.
W0ODROW WILSON— Annual Message. 1915
Polities is not an exact science. BISMARCK —Speech, 1863
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.
------JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE
It is a condition which confronts us. not a theory.
GROVER CLEVELAND—Annual Message, 1877
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