H.W. Charles Quotes
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset.
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.
Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.
An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.
Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!
I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.
I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!
Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.
A bean bag is a perfect place to sulk. You can sink way down deep, and sulk for hours... You only have to stick your head up once in a while... to see if anybody cares.
The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.
What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.
Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.
I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.
The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.
We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.