Every time I see an Erie Railroad engine bearing the name of its faithful driver a thrill goes through me, for I know that the man guiding it has won this rare honor by many years of the most loyal and efficient service. Who will argue that only public men and corporation heads are entitled to have their names emblazoned on the scroll of honor? All workmen care about is money, you say? Wrong. Workers are made of exactly the same stuff as generals or senators or presidents or governors or industrial leaders. It is just as fitting to honor the worthiest of our wage earners as it is to honor others.
—B. C. Forbes (Scottish-born American Journalist)
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
—Lenny Bruce (American Comedian)
Better not be at all than not be noble.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (British Poet)
Many are called but few get up.
—Oliver Herford (Canadian-American Writer, Humorist)
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
—Bayard Taylor (American Poet, Travel Writer)
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
—D. H. Lawrence (English Novelist)
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
—Samuel Rutherford (Scottish Theologian)
The best answer to bad speech is good speech
—Alan M. Dershowitz (American Legal Scholar)