Quotations Index - P

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QUOTATIONS INDEX

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Thomas Paine

* "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

* "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."

* "Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. ... The first is a patron, the last a punisher."  [Common Sense]

* "Time makes more converts than reason."

* "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.  [The American Crisis, 1776]
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Stathi Pappas

* "The stuff that everybody says is too hard to do? Do that. Really learn it. And then you’ll be worth your weight in gold."
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Louis Pasteur

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
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General George S. Patton

* "I’d rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me."

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
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Cesare Pavese

"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals, you will never find the right answer.  It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
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Drew Pearson

"It's the job of a newspaperman to spur the lazy, watch the weak, expose the corrupt."

"I've always tried to emphasize the personal side of journalism. It makes my points about clean government more effective and it does not put people to sleep the way some of my thumb-sucking colleagues do."
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William Penn

"Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants."
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Pericles

* "Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you."  [c. 430 B.C.]
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Laurence J. Peter

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
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Samantha Pickreign

"Better to have spent a life reaching for a dream that never came true, than to have slept through a life that never had a dream."
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Leonard Pitts, Jr.

"If we don't tell our stories, someone else will."
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Edgar Allan Poe

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
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Michael Pollan

* "Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food."
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Neil Postman

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
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Eleanor Powell

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."
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J. M. Power

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."
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Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

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Pythagoras

* "Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."
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