C. L. R. James Quotes
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.
The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails.
O it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.
You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change of perpetual flux.
Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.
Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.
Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
And he shall reign a goodly king And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet ring Who bides his time.
Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy.
It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
Education today more than ever before must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine it may be superficial but it isn't fake.
Someone's always saying "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way you're as good as dead.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.
You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.