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    American Wisdom: 750 Great American Quotes and Sayings
    American Wisdom: 750 Great American Quotes and Sayings
    American Wisdom: 750 Great American Quotes and Sayings
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    American Wisdom: 750 Great American Quotes and Sayings

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    These thought-provoking teachings from respected American leaders and thinkers provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. American Wisdom - 750 Great American Quotes and Sayings offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning.
    This compilation of quotations doubles as a historical reference and inspiration.
    This book contains 750 of the best quotes from the Greatest Americans.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMy Ebook Publishing House
    Release dateFeb 25, 2014
    ISBN9781310033667
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      1. AGE

      ~~**~~

      - The young are slaves to dreams; the old, servants of regrets.

      Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse.

      ~~**~~

      - Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

      Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

      ~~**~~

      - At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit • and at fourty, the judgement.

      Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanach

      ~~**~~

      - At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world; when a man is seventy, he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

      Clarence Darrow, Speech at Monkey-trial

      ~~**~~

      - We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

      Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude

      ~~**~~

      - A young man who has not cried is a savage; and an old man who does not laugh is a fool.

      George Santayana, Dialogue

      ~~**~~

      - The wisdom of the old is a great mistake. They do not become wiser, but more prudent.

      Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, IV, 35.

      ~~**~~

      - O, to be seventy again '.

      Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Remark, at ninety, when passing by a pretty girl).

      ~~**~~

      2. AMERICANS

      ~~**~~

      - Culture with us ends in a headache.

      Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

      ~~**~~

      - All his life, the American gets on and gets off trains that go by; he never misses them and never breaks a leg.

      George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States

      ~~**~~

      - Americans are scarcely Americans at all but discontented Europeans.

      ~~**~~

      - The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

      James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, p. 143, 22.

      ~~**~~

      - There is no act two in the lives of the Americans.

      Sinclair Lewis, The Last oft the Big Spenders

      ~~**~~

      - I believe:

      that all that one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intensly at the sky;

      that the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards;

      that all newspaper reporters carry notebooks;

      that, when shaving in a railway train, a man invariably cuts himself;

      that nicotine keeps the teeth healthy;

      that the wife of a rich man always looks wistfully into the past and wishes she had married a poor man;

      that the quality of the champagne may be judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped;

      that all the French women are very passionate and will sacrifice everything for love;

      that if one swallows an ounce of olive oil before going to a banquet one will never get drunk ...

      Henry Louis Mencken; George Jean Nathan, The American Credo

      ~~**~~

      - Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

      T. G. Appleton, quote by O. W. Holmes in The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table

      ~~**~~

      - A bleak society, that eats down some tasteless food, then sits down in a T-shirt, empty-minded, upon some rocking-chair, full of ridiculous ornaments, in order to listen to mechanical music, saying mechanically phrases about the excellence of Ford cars, and all this, while considering themselves the greatest nation in the world.

      Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, p. XII.

      ~~**~~

      - I am not a Virginian, but an American.

      Patrick Henry, Speech, 1774.

      ~~**~~

      - The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

      Alfred E. Smith, Speech

      ~~**~~

      3. ADVERTISING

      ~~**~~

      - Advertisments contains the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

      Thomas Jefferson, Letter

      ~~**~~

      - It pays to advertise.

      ~~**~~

      4. ANGER

      ~~**~~

      - When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

      Thomas Jefferson, A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life

      ~~**~~

      - Anger does not like to be reminded of fits.

      Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues: 113 Chorus, p. 167.

      ~~**~~

      5. ART

      ~~**~~

      - The ultimate questions of the human conditions need not be the explicit purpose of art, but they are the inevitable product of it.

      Howard M. Harper, Desperate Faith, p. 4.

      ~~**~~

      - Sculpture had always seemed a dull business – still, bronzes looked like something. But marble busts all looked like a cemetery.

      Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, p. 29.

      ~~**~~

      - Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

      Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art and America

      ~~**~~

      - The tendency in modern art to mould multiple images into a single work stems as much from Brancusi’s influence as from Freud’s.

      Katharine Kuh, Break-up; the Core of Modern Art, p. 106.

      ~~**~~

      - Art is long and time is fleeting.

      Henry Wardsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life

      ~~**~~

      6. ARTISTS

      ~~**~~

      - In the elder days of Art

      Builders wrought with greatest care

      Each minute and unseen part;

      For the Gods were everywhere.

      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Builders

      ~~**~~

      - Small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copperstone to posterity.

      Herman Melville, Moby Dick, p. 152.

      ~~**~~

      - This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

      James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, p. 5.

      ~~**~~

      - The great artists of the world are never puritans.

      Henry Louis Mencken, Prejudices: First Series, 16.

      ~~**~~

      - When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

      Daniel Webster, Sermons

      ~~**~~

      - The genius of the painter has a physical character, a manual, technical one, which the genius of the poet has not. Thus, when the painter reaches the climax of his power, his work does not begin to decline, it stays excelent to his death.

      Thomas Wolfe, The Web and

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