Quotes by American/USA authors (page 49)

"When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying"

Donald Wills Douglas, Aviator

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"The devil's name is dullness"

Robert E. Lee, General

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"The cynics are right nine times out of ten"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The highest revelation is that God is in every man"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher