I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brou...
SMEDLEY BUTLER The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thin...
ANNE SMEDLEY I hate female men.
AGNES SMEDLEY I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
AGNES SMEDLEY Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are...
AGNES SMEDLEY Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently...
AGNES SMEDLEY For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
AGNES SMEDLEY For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The ...
AGNES SMEDLEY Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never...
AGNES SMEDLEY But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to...
AGNES SMEDLEY But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most ...
AGNES SMEDLEY And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her...
AGNES SMEDLEY The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thing...
ANNE SMEDLEY I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country...
SMEDLEY BUTLER War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
SMEDLEY BUTLER Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This new...
SMEDLEY BUTLER There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the ...
SMEDLEY BUTLER My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. Thi...
SMEDLEY BUTLER I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEY Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot,...
AGNES SMEDLEY I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time...
SMEDLEY BUTLER I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Hai...
SMEDLEY BUTLER The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restle...
SMEDLEY BUTLER War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop i...
SMEDLEY BUTLER War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems ...
SMEDLEY BUTLER Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been cau...
AGNES SMEDLEY Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natur...
AGNES SMEDLEY My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when...
AGNES SMEDLEY I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for...
SMEDLEY BUTLER The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twe...
SMEDLEY BUTLER War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits ...
SMEDLEY BUTLER We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be wa...
SMEDLEY BUTLER When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
AGNES SMEDLEY So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There wer...
AGNES SMEDLEY Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
AGNES SMEDLEY More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forev...
AGNES SMEDLEY In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts,...
AGNES SMEDLEY I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to re...
AGNES SMEDLEY There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they ...
AGNES SMEDLEY No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is ...
AGNES SMEDLEY What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them...
AGNES SMEDLEY In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked w...
AGNES SMEDLEY Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and...
AGNES SMEDLEY For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired t...
SMEDLEY BUTLER Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to ...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy an...
E. F. SCHUMACHER You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
E. F. SCHUMACHER It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the i...
E. F. SCHUMACHER The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes ...
E. F. SCHUMACHER An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, mater...
E. F. SCHUMACHER If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
E. F. SCHUMACHER Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
E. F. SCHUMACHER Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally...
E. F. BENSON Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any t...
E. F. BENSON What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a...
E. F. BENSON There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine pal...
E. F. BENSON Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care ...
E. F. BENSON Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet fo...
E. F. BENSON The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health the...
E. F. BENSON All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possesse...
E. F. BENSON To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and th...
E. F. BENSON Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and...
E. F. BENSON Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments...
E. F. BENSON Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
E. F. BENSON Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character...
E. F. BENSON Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
F. E. SMITH The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
F. E. SMITH When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
E F BENSON Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of g...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E. F. SCHUMACHER Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
E. F. SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. SCHUMACKER The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-clean...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction...
F. E. CLARK Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.
F. E. ABBOT Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a l...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest h...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. SCHUMACKER Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the w...
E. F. SCHUMACHER The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of...
E. F. SCHUMACHER An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth / in short, mater...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of ge...
E. F. SCHUMACKER All fair in love and war.
FRANCIS EDWARD SMEDLEY All's fair in love and war.
FRANCIS EDWARD SMEDLEY I spent 33 years and 4 months in active military service . . . And during that period I spent most o...
GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's ...
SMEDLEY D. BUTLER An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth -- in short, mate...
E. F. [ERNST FRIEDRICH] SCHUMACHER Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the w...
E. F. [ERNST FRIEDRICH] SCHUMACHER I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a directio...
E. F. [ERNST FRIEDRICH] SCHUMACHER Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. [ERNST FRIEDRICH] SCHUMACHER One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
E F J VON MUNCH-BELLINGHAUSEN The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES Art must take reality by surprise.
F. SAGAN Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed ...
F. HAWES There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
F. ALBRECHT The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN To be human is to be imperfect. To be perfect is to be divine. To be divine is to ascend through dea...
CHARLES F To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
F. SAGAN Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, bu...
F. SAGAN If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
F. WIKZEK [But soon afterward, the decision blew up in Hillary's face. Breaking her habit, she read Newsweek t...
F. SCOTT Divergent thinking
F. SCOTT At seventeen, you tend to go in for unhappy love affairs.
F. SAGAN A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
F. SAGAN One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
F. SAGAN Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the ...
F. SAGAN A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
F. SAGAN I like men to behave like men - strong and childish
F. SAGAN War will cease when men refuse to fight.
F. HANSEN Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on...
EAZY-E ..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.
E. LOCKHART I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's r...
EAZY-E Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
EAZY-E Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
EAZY-E Compton is my city.
EAZY-E