104995 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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"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company"

Lily Tomlin, Actress

Lily Tomlin

"A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!"

Oscar Hammerstein II, Musician

"Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant"

Julia Roberts, Actress

Julia Roberts

"Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits"

Hervey Allen, Author

"Every wall is a door"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths"

Edgar A. Shoaff, Writer

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"The details are not the details. They make the design"

Charles Eames, Designer

Charles Eames

"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

Madeleine L'Engle

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

W. C. Fields

"May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

Hubert H. Humphrey

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

George Matthew Adams

"A person's a person, no matter how small"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

Dr. Seuss

"Music is my religion"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"Competition is a sin"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have"

Ring Lardner, Comedian

"When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes"

Lewis Grizzard, Writer

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

Mary Kay Ash

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

Jesse Jackson

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Upton Sinclair, Author

Upton Sinclair

"You're only as good as your last performance"

Al Pacino, Actor

Al Pacino

"Enjoy every sandwich"

Warren Zevon, Musician

Warren Zevon

"The years teach much which the days never know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

W. C. Fields

"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

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