William Henry Brisbane Quotes

#1. I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

Richard P. Feynman

#2. The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

John Fowles

#3. I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

Joe Haldeman

#4. Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

Edna Ferber

#5. On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#6. Rule I. - DEEPLY possess your mind with the vast importance of a good judgment, and the rich and inestimable advantage of right reasoning.

Issac Watts

#7. Separation is the first cause of inequality.

Katy Tackes

#8. Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.

Kenneth Grahame