C. H. Douglas Quotes

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

Where our bread is concerned it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned it is a spiritual matter.

Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.

Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.

Quality not quantity is my measure.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I was a grave digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.

Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war only patriots and traitors.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.

Communication is important.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

I am huge water sports fan. I love to jet ski, speedboat, water ski. So I love to get away to somewhere sunny and just get on the water and have some fun with some friends.

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee?

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.