Milton Quotes

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Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.

I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

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.

Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.

Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.