H.W. Charles Quotes

The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Don't go for happiness, go for truth!

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

Stay positive and do whatever makes you happy.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.

If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.

We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

I empty myself with light Until I become morning.

I was thinking - if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.