105303 Quotes by American authors

American voices swing between defiance and tenderness, mixing porch talk with courtroom thunder, hymnals with barroom jokes. The sayings lean toward motion, road-tested, restless, certain that the next turn matters, and they test ideas like tools, not ornaments. Humor undercuts sermon, dissent stands beside loyalty, and hope keeps arguing with experience. From prairie plain speech to borough quickfire, the language favors verbs over lace, a handshake over ceremony. Edge meets empathy, contradictions are carried honestly, and words still try to shove the world forward.

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"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

Charles M. Schulz

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

"Success and failure are equally disastrous"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

"Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

Thomas Hooker

"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors"

Jim Morrison, Musician

Jim Morrison

"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do"

Michael Porter, Educator

Michael Porter

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

Orison Swett Marden

"As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot"

Ray Kroc, Businessman

Ray Kroc

"Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

Scott Adams

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

Phyllis Diller

"Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

Ani DiFranco

"After thirty, a body has a mind of its own"

Bette Midler, Actress

Bette Midler

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

Donald Rumsfeld

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur"

Red Adair, Celebrity

Red Adair

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?""

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Margaret Fuller

"A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed"

Lou Costello, Comedian

Lou Costello

"Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one"

Bobby Knight, Coach

Bobby Knight

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

"It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of"

John Barrow, Politician

"Make your life a mission - not an intermission"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"America is another name for opportunity"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Eighty percent of success is showing up"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"The sergeant is the Army"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity"

Anne Baxter, Actress

Anne Baxter

"Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves"

Anne Baxter, Actress

Anne Baxter

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