J.W. Lord Quotes

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

Absence - that common cure of love.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.