All Quotes

"I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more."

"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."

"They are the affectation of affectation."

"I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality."

"Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of."

"The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town."

"...the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up."

"Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any farther together, to acquaint thee that I intend to digress, through this whole history, as often as I see occasion, of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic...""

"...for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them."

"Every physician almost hath his favorite disease."

"Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven."

"Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?"

"In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."

"He was, indeed, in a condition, in which, if reason had interposed, though only to advise, she might have received the answer which one Cleostratus gave many years ago to a silly fellow, who asked him, if he was not ashamed to be drunk? "Are not you," said Cleostratus, "ashamed to admonish a drunken man?" — To say the truth, in a court of justice drunkenness must not be an excuse, yet in a court of conscience it is greatly so."

"Distinction without a difference."

"At last the Ocean, that hospitable friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive him."

"Amiable weakness."

"The dignity of history."

"His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage."

"Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune."

"Republic of letters."

"When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief."

"To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern."

"Life may as properly be called an art as any other."

"It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible."

"Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation."

"These are called the pious frauds of friendship."

"When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on."

"One fool at least in every married couple."

"A good face, they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World?"

"There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman."

"Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none."

"There is no dull chapter. But he makes the hero too good. He seems to think that so long as Tom goes for a little miscellaneous fornication he will be saved from priggishness. I doubt if this is so, especially at the end, where Tom's angelicalness upon the misfortunes of Blifil is really a bit thick."

"The History of a Foundling is truth, and human nature itself; and there lies the inestimable advantage which it possesses over all previous fictions of this particular kind."

"(Castor Oyl: Hey there, are you a sailor?) "Ja' think I'm a cowboy?""

"I yam what I yam and tha's all what I yam.""

"Well blow me down!"

"That's all I can stands, cuz I can't stands n'more!"

"I'm strong to the finach, 'cause I eats me Spinach, I'm Popeye the sailor man! (toot, toot)"

"Olive Oyl says that she don't want to be with no unedumacated ignoramousk. So I'll be an EDUMACATED ignoramousk! (and he enrolls)"

"I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

"Let's you and him fight."

"Help, Popeye! Save me!"

"Vermont is a state I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Killington, Mansfield, and Equinox without being moved in a way that no other scene could move me. It was here that I first saw the light of day; here that I received my bride; here my dead lie, pillowed on the loving breast of our everlasting hills. I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont."

"Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference."

"I am Vermont."

"Had West Virginia been nothing more than a mountainous bulwark around which rushed the main currents of American life, its fate would probably have resembled that of Vermont. In fact, Rutherford B. Hayes made this comparison and concluded that there was "Nothing finer in Vermont or New Hampshire" than the western Virginia scenery he enjoyed. If the resemblance had continued to hold, West Virginia would have remained a backwater during the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the nineteenth century but still would have enjoyed two compensating mid-twentieth-century trends: the federal policies and programs that have worked to iron out differences in material standards of living among the various states, and the rise of tourist and recreational industries. Even today, notwithstanding all the violence that has been visited on the landscape, West Virginia's scenery and the recreational potential of its mountains, forests, and streams have proved its most enduring economic resources. Thus for states like Vermont and for those small portions of eastern West Virginia that have nothing but scenery to depend on, modern affluence and aesthetic values may finally break down the barriers that once separated mountain regions from full participation in the nation's economic life."

"We can have enough clean energy to power every home."

"Let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do. I'm going to have a special prosecutor. We're going to enforce the trade deals we have, and we're going to hold people accountable."

"There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. And I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again."