D.E. Stevenson Quotes

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.

For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.

If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.

There is but one art to omit.

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

The Lord replied, "The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.

High school will probably be better. I mean, some kids will still be jerks, but it's not so bad if you have at least one good friend. Someone who gets you.

If you have sixty seconds worth of distance...run!

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.

Trouble is you never knew her. Died too soon. It's always a pity when they die too soon, but maybe it's worse when they live too long.

Poor Ramon.

For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move

He's an idiot for letting you walk away in that dress tonight.

It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.

[N]o lie can live forever...

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.

Books are people, '' smiled Miss Marks. ''In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.

In America, anybody can be president.That's one of the risks you take.

Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?

I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle....

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill.

Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.

Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

The human race has improved everything except the human race.

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Handel was a man of the world but Bach was a world of a man.

Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.