H.W. Charles Quotes

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer la guerre)

This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.

I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

I cherish genuine conversation, where people actually care what someone else has to say.

They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.

Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

"Okay I have arthritis and this is the way arthritis is." Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.

There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully.

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest do not worry.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

To make pleasure pleasant shorten.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.

As an artist grows older he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

She deceiving I believing What need lovers wish for more?

Books think for me.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.

All business proceeds on beliefs on judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.

The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.

Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Hark the herald angels sing "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled!

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

We have lived and loved together Through many changing years We have shared each other's gladness And wept each other's tears.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

The less men think the more they talk.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.