Quotes About Reflection

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

One cool judgement is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."~

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon. Neither do you read it to kill time, but to lengthen time, rather, adding to its natural usury by living the more abundantly while it lasts, joining another's life and thought to your own.

When people get hurt,they learn to hate...when people hurt others,they become hated and racked with guilt.But knowing that pain allows people to be kind.Pain allows people to grow...and how you grow is up to you.

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.

I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

The key here, I think, is to not think of death as an end. But ... but ... think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

I appreciate the chance to visit my mom on Mother's Day -- it's like taking a refresher course in guilt.

I recently turned 60 years old. Practically a third of my life is over.

I am two with nature.

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.