S. Parkes Cadman Quotes

#1. In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this

Marcus Aurelius

#2. Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Cornel West

#3. God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

Jeannette Walls

#4. Skyler often thought that the Seneca quotation Poe included was a dig at Dupin-or perhaps Poe himself: Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. "Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness." "That's for sure," said Skyler aloud. "Or more succintly put, 'No one likes a smart ass'.

Haley Walsh

#5. Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt ... right. I felt free.

Ilona Andrews

#6. Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

S. Parkes Cadman

#7. I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

Daisy Ashford

#8. Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

S. Parkes Cadman

#9. Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we'll always have more to give.

Michael Cunningham

#10. If you are still alive when you read this,
close your eyes. I am
under their lids, growing black.

Bill Knott

#11. Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#12. Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.

S. Parkes Cadman

#13. We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

S. Parkes Cadman

#14. A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

S. Parkes Cadman

#15. All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,
it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

Ralph Waldo Emerson