Tilden's Quotes

#1. I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#2. They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

Thomas Beecham

#3. Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Bill Tilden

#4. New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

Samuel J. Tilden

#5. There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it entirely. Of course when that time comes, in all probability, the credit will be given to vaccination.

John H. Tilden

#6. An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than simply to communicate factual information.

Freeman Tilden

#7. I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

Marion Cotillard

#8. I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality
the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity.

Freeman Tilden

#9. To play mixed doubles: hit the girl whenever possible.

Bill Tilden

#10. Bill Tilden was the greatest - and most improbably great - tennis player of the age.

Bill Bryson

#11. Here's my formula: I usually start with a joke or story to catch the audience's attention; then I tell them what I am going to tell them, I tell them, and then I tell them what I just told them.

Ronald Reagan

#12. By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Nelson Mandela

#13. This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

Tilden Edwards

#14. It is such an innocent, intuitively discerning mind that helps make the Eastern guru and the Desert Abba "master". Where intimate Source radiates among non-Christians then surely we must be dealing with the "other sheep" manifesting the cosmic Christ.

Tilden Edwards

#15. The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

Freeman Tilden

#16. Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.

Angela Kinsey

#17. In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.

Bill Tilden

#18. What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there is an entity called diseasewhich can be expelled when the right drug is found?

John Henry Tilden