C. L. R. James Quotes
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.
In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.
Reform must come from within not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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.
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.
Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.
Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous.
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.
Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.
Under normal periods any man's success hinges about five percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward 'Gentlemen let there be no mistake. I should make a good president but a very bad candidate.'
If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in the country.
Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.
The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy do this deed for me?"
Some hae meat and canna eat And some wad eat that want it But we hae meat and we can eat And sae the Lord be thankit.
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.
Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.
She is a winsome wee thing She is a handsome wee thing She is a bonny wee thing This sweet wee wife o' mine.
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
You see dear it is not true that woman was made from man's rib she was really made from his funny bone.
