Will H. Hays Quotes

#1. All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#2. The future ain't what it used to be - and what's more, it never was.

Lee Hays

#3. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, come forth from deep within me with Christmas luminous beauty.

Edward M Hays

#4. Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.

Edward Hays

#5. Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it ...

Mary Hays

#6. If I ever offer to plan your wedding or sweet sixteen or something, do yourself a favor and run away screaming.

Gwen Hayes

#7. What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#8. Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#9. Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread.

Edward M Hays

#10. The Episcopalian ideal of a gentleman is a man who, if a lady falls down drunk, will pick her up off the floor and freshen up her drink. You practically have to be on the list for your second liver transplant before a Southern Episcopalian notices that you drink too much.

Charlotte Hays

#11. Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person.

Edward M Hays

#12. If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.

Wayne Hays

#13. Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker
as soon as you have lost all your marbles.

Brooks Hays

#14. I lift up my heart in gratitude for these beautiful yearly bridges that bind us together in love.

Edward M Hays

#15. Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

Brooks Hays

#16. Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.

Richard B. Hays

#17. A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

Theodor W. Adorno

#18. Christians are the salt of the earth ... Nothing grows where they've been.

Donald Hays

#19. We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#20. I've changed so much. Look at me! I'm eating scones on a bed with a pirate!

Lara Hays

#21. "Safety First" is "Safety Always."

Charles Melville Hays

#22. The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#23. I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#24. Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time.

Donald Hays

#25. Jesus' death on the cross is not an accident or an injustice that befell him; it is, rather, an act of sacrifice freely offered for the sake of God's people.

Richard B. Hays

#26. For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#27. You just cannot reason with a turnip. It's fruitless.

Gary Hays

#28. We talked about how we were going to be roommates and live together forever. Yeah, even I knew we were just making silly talk with that, but a part of me really hoped that it was true.

Susanna Hays

#29. Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

John Hays Hammond

#30. Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger