Blackie Quotes

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Love is like air we can't see it but feel it.

He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.