It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
Augustus de Morgan
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It is easier to square the circle than to get round a
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BEN OAK It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
PETE ROSE The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
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BISHOP GEORGE BERKELEY It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
PETE ROSE It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.
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ELBERT HUBBARD 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
STUART'S LAW OF RETROACTION You're trying to get the lyrics and melody to coexist. And sometimes you're trying to fit a square p...
ANDREW BIRD It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
DONALD RUMSFELD How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???
What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
WILLIE STARGELL It is easier to stay out than get out.
MARK TWAIN Why is ground round sold in a square package?
NEIL LECKMAN A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority dis...
ELMER T PETERSON It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting."
"I love round tables," said...
CASSANDRA CLARE The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle ro...
GEORGE MOORE Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD It's easier to seek forgiveness than it is to get permission.
REAR ADMIRAL GRACE MURRAY HOPPER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
AESOP I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square."
Magnus, pg. 137
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
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WILLIAM STAFFORD It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
JOHN FORD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL So I'm a square! Well, at least I'm not a square peg in a round hole.
LORETTA YOUNG It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.
E JAMES ROHN It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.
E. JAMES ROHN The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into th...
G.K. CHESTERTON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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JASPER FFORDE It's a lot easier for cable to get into the phone business than it is for phone companies to get int...
JAY RITTER It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of
AGNES ALLEN Square meals often make round people.
E. JOSEPH COSSMAN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK You can't fit a round peg in a square hole
AMERICAN PROVERB Love is like a circle, a circle big and round. An individual can draw a circle around him or her and...
C. LIDE SANGTAM Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh...
DOROTHY B. HUGHES It is easier to get something resolved with the Department of Labor than it is with a private lawyer...
BRIAN FINUCANE I'm a triangular peg in a square and round hole world
JIM MCLAUGHLIN A successful library serves the immediate needs of the community. You can't fit a square in a circle...
GENE COPPOLA It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in...
CHIEF BLACK ELK The intimate, even incestuous Circle in the Square where the audience was close enough to be patrons...
JOHN BRYSON Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole i...
PAUL COLLINS Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO To say I've suddenly discovered the military needs to be involved is like saying wheels should be ro...
MICHAEL GREENBERGER South Florida is a better team (than Saint Leo), and it was a lot easier to get off to a good start.
TRENT HAGAN It's much easier to get your account information the old-fashioned way (on paper) than it is online.
JUDY WICKS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can...
LEWIS N. ROE There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to...
MIKE HUCKABEE It is easier to start a war than to end it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Square box, round pizza, triangle slices, now that's confusing.
ANONYMOUS It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
WILLIAM OSLER They say "the taste of the pudding is in the eating," but that doesn't apply to "a square peg in a r...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get per...
GRACE HOPPER We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark o...
JOHN BURROUGHS It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
FERDINAND E. MARCOS I happened to be in Dupont Circle already, so it was easier for me to stop by their office. Security...
JAMES MORAN You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.
ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.
UNKNOWN Its easier to stay out than get out
MARK TWAIN Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.
MANDY HALE In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfyin...
SAMUEL BUTLER The glad circle round them yield their souls
To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.
JAMES THOMSON (1) One day at least in every week,
The sects of every kind
Their doctrines here are sure to seek,...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN I was x years old in the year x^2.
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, an...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and ...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN One day at least in every week, the sects of every kind their doctrines here are sure to seek, And j...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN The genius of Lapla...
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AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN It is easier to square the circle than to get round a
mathematician.
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN I was x years old in the year x^2.
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, an...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and ...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN One day at least in every week, the sects of every kind their doctrines here are sure to seek, And j...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN The genius of Lapla...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief imp...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN Lagrange, in...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS Hasten slowly.
AUGUSTUS If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but ...
AUGUSTUS I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
AUGUSTUS Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of whi...
AUGUSTUS Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from th...
AUGUSTUS Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for
me.
WILLIAM DE MORGAN I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the
Hall of Fame. I want to achieve imm...
WILLIAM DE MORGAN For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of
the evidence of existence is nece...
WILLIAM DE MORGAN For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is neces...
WILLIAM DE MORGAN A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square
and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse...
WILLIAM DE MORGAN Art is eternal, but life is short.
EVELYN DE MORGAN There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - ...
AUGUSTUS HARE Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day send...
AUGUSTUS HARE Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Hasten slowly
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS Hasten slowly.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The diff...
AUGUSTUS HARE Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
AUGUSTUS HARE Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
AUGUSTUS HARE You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses;...
AUGUSTUS HARE Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Make haste slowly.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
AUGUSTUS HARE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS Practice, the master of all things.
AUGUSTUS OCTAVIUS A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they...
AUGUSTUS HARE Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so ...
AUGUSTUS HARE As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
AUGUSTUS HARE The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
AUGUSTUS HARE What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our he...
AUGUSTUS HARE It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say an...
AUGUSTUS HARE It was her smile. It was the teacher she was, but also the person she was.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Our defense was tenacious. We had the energy which we didn't have at Connecticut. The defense initia...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS When you step into an arena like the Civic Center, with so much history that they've made in there, ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It just came down to the fact that it was my home-town school. I grew up around here, it was the opp...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS If someone has to take them — especially at crunch time — then I'd rather take the shot. I'm not...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It felt good. I was happy just to be out there after my long journey. It was a new experience for me...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Yesterday's practice felt like I've been here for two years. The team chemistry is great. ... I'm a ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I think they're trying to keep up with us.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It's just a great opportunity in front of us.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS We just were standing around and it was easy to guard us.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS You could see the difference when we actually set screens, made the right cuts, doing the things we ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS You want to go out on a high note. It's a great opportunity to play the best ever.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I feel good about it. I think I've worked hard enough to be deserving of this. It's just a joy being...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I think a lot of times we got caught standing in the paint, so there wasn't a lot of opportunity for...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS She came in and talked to us like young women. I think we can take to the talking more than the yell...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS We don't worry about seeding. We have to be prepared to play whoever, wherever. We're focused on our...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It was just time to pick it up.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS This is another eye-opener for us, and I expect that our level of play will increase and it will pic...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I want to be able to kiss that crystal ball. Hold it and hug it.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Everybody who walks into that arena has the responsibility of representing Pete Maravich. It's on ou...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Our offense was not as effective. I would not say our energy level was low. But, it was not tip top....
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I didn't want to take a chance at drawing a foul, losing the ball, whatever the case may have been, ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Hopefully, we win six games, and we never have that feeling of disappointment.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS They did a good job on the defensive end, but most of it dealt with our offense. We just stood aroun...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS The play was running perfectly. I had a good screen, but it was a bad shot, I should have had my fee...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS They were up nine. We cut into the lead, but they came back with two 3-pointers back-to-back. You ca...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I'm just glad to be part of the history here. I'm more happy to get a win than the 2,000 points.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Regardless, we knew she'd want us to come back to Europe and go for the gold. While it was shocking ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It's great to be the first team to win here. I think it was kind of an emotional thing for everybody...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It wasn't what you'd expect. There wasn't a lot of yelling and stuff like that. It was mainly a lot ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS No pressure at all because I know I have a great supporting cast, I have a lot of great players here...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS This would be the ultimate thing, to bring a national championship back to my hometown, back to the ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS My eye's on the prize. We want to win. But if we don't, I'm not going to jump off a bridge.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS We didn't run our offense effectively. We just stood around too much and made it too easy for Duke t...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It's kind of the same situation. The only thing that's different is I think we already have a solid ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I really don't understand how a men's and women's program wouldn't get along. It's like brotherhood ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS When you see her come and do a reverse dunk from one side to the other and actually like hang off th...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I was trying to prove myself tonight.
EMANUEL AUGUSTUS They're always stealing fights from me. It's embarrassing to lose to this type of fighters. They're ...
EMANUEL AUGUSTUS No way that guy beat me. It always happens to me.
EMANUEL AUGUSTUS What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character,...
AUGUSTUS HARE Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain ...
AUGUSTUS HARE It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things go...
AUGUSTUS HARE Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
AUGUSTUS HARE Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the ...
AUGUSTUS HARE Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the s...
AUGUSTUS HARE To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
AUGUSTUS HARE The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
AUGUSTUS HARE A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
AUGUSTUS HARE Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
AUGUSTUS HARE Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my lat...
AUGUSTUS TOPLADY Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in gra...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the
parts of intellect are whetstones t...
CYRUS AUGUSTUS BARTOL Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone
As when the Organ's music rolls;
No gold rewards, but ...
GOTTFRIED AUGUSTUS BURGER What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, repli...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen wi...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET I never goes to law to mend my bargains.
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. Hi...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural ...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number o...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two op...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes be...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER The more deeply we dive, the less we mind upsetting waves, finding within intimate relationship an i...
ROBERT AUGUSTUS MASTERS Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling ...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET Oh, dainty and delicious!
Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!
Worthy to thrill the soul ...
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, bee...
AUGUSTUS PITT RIVERS If Governor Fields is right, I am going to stand by him because he is right. If he is wrong, I am go...
AUGUSTUS OWSLEY STANLEY What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous f...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of s...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER It is nine o'clock, and London has breakfasted. Some unconsidered tens of thousands have, it is true...
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA Winning and losing isn't everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.
ALEX MORGAN You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.
MORGAN WOOTTEN Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this ...
EDMUND MORGAN The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
MORGAN FREEMAN I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.
TRACY MORGAN That's the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to ...
MORGAN WOOTTEN The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his sing...
TED MORGAN I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from pa...
VANESSA MORGAN I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From th...
VANESSA MORGAN My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ...
VANESSA MORGAN I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but yo...
VANESSA MORGAN People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're ...
TRACY MORGAN And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places yo...
MORGAN FREEMAN Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past ...
EDMUND MORGAN I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unkno...
TRACY MORGAN Saying good-bye is basically an invitation not to see a person again. It's making it okay for that t...
MORGAN MATSON Tomorrow will be better.”
“But what if it’s not?” I asked.
“Then you say it agai...
MORGAN MATSON Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Mich...
TRACY MORGAN Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra...
TRACY MORGAN I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and a...
MORGAN BRITTANY There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think t...
PIERS MORGAN I get so bummed when I have to return the clothes I'm lent. It's easy to feel so special, bu...
MORGAN SAYLOR You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a come...
TRACY MORGAN You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage ...
MORGAN SPURLOCK I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black m...
MORGAN FREEMAN Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constituti...
EDMUND MORGAN The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particu...
EDMUND MORGAN Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They ...
EDMUND MORGAN Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchan...
EDMUND MORGAN The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer ...
EDMUND MORGAN It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is ...
EDMUND MORGAN Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson s...
EDMUND MORGAN Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who...
EDMUND MORGAN In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer...
EDMUND MORGAN No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
EDMUND MORGAN Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, ...
EDMUND MORGAN The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that the...
EDMUND MORGAN The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist t...
EDMUND MORGAN The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did no...
EDMUND MORGAN To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one fro...
EDMUND MORGAN By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassin...
EDMUND MORGAN I start warming up before training an hour before at the hotel. That's not because I feel old an...
ALEX MORGAN I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see ...
MORGAN FREEMAN If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have wri...
CHARLES MORGAN Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny...
ROBIN MORGAN Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, ...
MORGAN FREEMAN The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but...
CHARLES MORGAN There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
ROBIN MORGAN The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
ELAINE MORGAN Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to f...
MORGAN MATSON Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
ROBIN MORGAN Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy...
RUTH MORGAN People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.
HENRY MORGAN A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.
HENRY MORGAN Surviving well is your finest revenge.
MORGAN NITO I am a little concerned that some of the measures that are proposed may simply increase the number o...
ALASDAIR MORGAN It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning,...
ROBIN MORGAN A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism
DONALD MORGAN Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
ROBIN MORGAN Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleo...
TED MORGAN I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.
TRACY MORGAN When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after...
EDMUND MORGAN The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable C...
EDMUND MORGAN I would love to try action films.
TRACY MORGAN I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have ...
TRACY MORGAN A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
FRANK MORGAN Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go arou...
MORGAN FREEMAN It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, p...
TRACY MORGAN I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are...
TRACY MORGAN Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance...
MORGAN FREEMAN If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that d...
MORGAN FREEMAN Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.
JULIA MORGAN My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
JULIA MORGAN Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
JULIA MORGAN