James Mackintosh Quotes

#1. Cats are cats ... the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran

Lilian Jackson Braun

#2. As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.

Ani DiFranco

#3. The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.

James Mackintosh

#4. The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.

James Mackintosh

#5. You never stop learning. You learn something new every day.

Robinson Cano

#6. Never keep a lawyer waiting. They have friends in low and infernal places.

David Weber

#7. A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

James Mackintosh

#8. How long must a fish study to understand human motivation?

Vernor Vinge

#9. I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.

Robert Gossett

#10. Whatever is popular deserves attention.

James Mackintosh

#11. The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

Alan Hirsch

#12. Supportive friends help you to discover your hidden talents and encourage you to reach for your dreams

Margo Vader

#13. Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability.

Pearl Zhu

#14. I had been opposed to the practice of dedicating books; I had held that a book is addressed to any reader who proves worthy of it.

Ayn Rand

#15. Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

James Mackintosh

#16. It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

James Mackintosh

#17. It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

James Mackintosh

#18. Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

James Mackintosh

#19. The frivolous work of polished idleness.

James Mackintosh

#20. The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

James Mackintosh

#21. Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

James Mackintosh

#22. The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

James Mackintosh

#23. If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

John Bellamy Foster

#24. if there is a footprint to leave, it must be that which can stand the test of time

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. My dragon? save anybody?
you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps? ...

Margaret Weis

#26. Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

James Mackintosh

#27. Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

James Mackintosh

#28. Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

James Mackintosh