Will Carleton Quotes

#1. Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

Jetta Carleton

#2. I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.

Richard Carleton

#3. But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

Will Carleton

#4. Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

Will Carleton

#5. If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

Will Carleton

#6. of lead, sometimes

Carleton Prince

#7. Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.

Charles Carleton Coffin

#8. Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest.

Jetta Carleton

#9. But very early they understood that playing was somewhat suspect, allowed through indulgence, a trivial pastime soon outgrown, and only about twice removed from sin. Pleasure was only once-removed.

Jetta Carleton

#10. There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them;
Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

Will Carleton

#11. So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree

Will Carleton

#12. The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

Carleton S. Coon

#13. Carleton Coon of the University of Pennsylvania suggested that some modern races have different sources of origin, implying that some of us come from superior stock to others.

Bill Bryson

#14. The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.

Will Carleton

#15. Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

#16. One can repent of a sin and have done with it; but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it.

Jetta Carleton

#17. Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads.

Richard Carleton

#18. Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.

Carleton Young

#19. Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

Kai Bird

#20. The human heart has always dreamed of a fairer world than the one it knows

Carleton Noyes

#21. Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

Will Carleton

#22. Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!

Will Carleton

#23. There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.

Carleton Young

#24. Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

Will Carleton

#25. And maybe it wasn't his love that brought him back, but hers. How seductive being loved could be.

Jetta Carleton

#26. Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.

Will Carleton

#27. Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

#28. Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

William Carleton

#29. Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

Will Carleton

#30. We thank Thee, O Father of all, for ... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

Will Carleton

#31. To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Will Carleton

#32. The night spread wide around her, filled with its wonders.

Jetta Carleton

#33. Many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

Carleton S. Coon

#34. Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.

Will Carleton

#35. And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us

Will Carleton

#36. My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

Hanya Yanagihara

#37. I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

Will Carleton