1851 Silver Quotes

#1. I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience ... I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting.

Edmund Morgan

#2. There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.

Bill Bryson

#4. Banding together with others to achieve a common pursuit cannot help but engender a strong feeling of community, whether you're baling hay or mounting A Chorus Line in a tiny theater space.

Nick Offerman

#5. If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

Saint John Chrysostom

#6. You Never Know A True Friend Until You get Into A Serious Misunderstanding With Him Or Her

Michael A. Johnson

#7. Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

Marianne Williamson

#8. For some reason the past - any of our pasts - was solidly off-limits. They were like the creepy rabbits in Watership Down who won't answer any questions beginning with "Where.

Tana French

#9. I got no time for the jibba-jabba.

Mr. T

#10. Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

Giambattista Vico

#11. Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?

Ellen Wilkinson

#12. The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

Lao-Tzu

#13. The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

Robert Barany