Al Smith Quotes

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.

I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.

Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.

They say tall people live a lot longer than short people. No they don't. They're just so irritating it seems they are around a lot longer.

Romance without finance is no good.

Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!

No objects of value ... are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

Take short views hope for the best and trust in God.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.

How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.

If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

The only time you find success before work is in the dictionary.

That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.

We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.

Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.

It's a long old road but I know I'm gonna find the end.

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now.

I’m not sure we’re quite the monsters you want us to be.

Good fiction makes the truth believable.