D.E. Stevenson Quotes

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

Live life to the fullest.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

Youth is wholly experimental.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

Make up your mind to be happy.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible

I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.