Charles Montague Quotes

#1. If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

Charles Edward Montague

#2. I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.

Ken Wilber

#3. Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

Charles Edward Montague

#4. I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#5. Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the harmony will be altered. He pretends sometimes to trip; but it is only to make you think him in danger of a fall, when he is most secure.

John Dryden

#6. I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.

Ram Shriram

#7. To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

Charles Edward Montague

#8. All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks ... c'mon people, get with the program - the future is now!

Jeff Ament

#9. You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused.
Fang tried to play innocent
but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

James Patterson

#10. Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

Charles Edward Montague

#11. A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Charles Edward Montague

#12. I was once again, Miss Alexandria Charles Montague Collins, the flawless proper lady, pretentious to the help, and people pleaser - the well-bred Southern belle who wore the mask of perfection because no one wanted to see the truth underneath.

Aleatha Romig

#13. Love is war. The best tactic in attack is surrender.

Chloe Thurlow

#14. You're your own problem

Thabiso Monkoe

#15. In a world full of imagination, anything is possible!

P.A.Davies

#16. War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

Charles Edward Montague

#17. Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

Dave Barry

#18. Men destroy countries; Women destroy universes.

Fredrick

#19. Autumn is my favorite season.

Johnny Kelly

#20. To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Charles Edward Montague

#21. There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

Charles Edward Montague

#22. Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Robin S. Sharma

#23. A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, by not swallowing them.

Charles Edward Montague

#24. Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

Charles Edward Montague

#25. This girl. She's my girl. She's not perfect. Neither am I. But she's perfect for me, and I'll do anything I can to keep her.

Belle Aurora

#26. CSL - cock- sucking-lips.

Stylo Fantome

#27. The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Charles Edward Montague