Quotes from David Starr Jordan

"Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

each subjective pleasure which had no foundation in action, there was a subjective sorrow,

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

Today is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is the time. This we know, it is a part of action, not of whining. It is a part of love, not cynicism. It is for us to express love in terms of human helpfulness. This we know, for we have learned from sad experience that any other course of life leads toward decay and waste.

Long ago, in the infancy of civilization, man learned that there were drugs in Nature, cell products of the growth or transformation of "our brother organisms, the plants," by whose agency pain was turned to pleasure. By the aid of these outside influences he could clear "today of past regrets and future fears," and strike out from the sad "calendar unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Put some in!

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

Collis P. Huntington... maintained a rigid code of ethics of his own framing. It was, however, a code of power, currently described about as follows: "Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down."