Christopher Taylor > Christopher's Quotes

“What's good for reform is bad for the reformers”
― Loren D. Estleman Gas City

“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
― -A. A. Milne

“I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.”
― Francis Schaeffer

“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge

“In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.”
― Francis Schaeffer

“The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.”
― James Montgomery Boice

“Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.”
― Booker T. Washington

“I learned what education was expected to do for an individual. Before going there I had a good deal of the then rather prevalent idea among our people that to secure an education meant to have a good, easy time, free from all necessity for manual labor. At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labor, but learned to love labor, not alone for its financial value, but for labor’s own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“Character is power.”
― Booker T. Washington

“In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: an autobiography

“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”
― Booker T. Washington

“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
― Raymond Chandler

“I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.”
― Mitch Hedberg

“I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.”
― Elmore Leonard

“For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die”
― Malcolm Muggeridge

“Can’t say what impresses me most about my followers – their good looks, their incredible intellects, or their immunity to cheap flattery.”
― David Burge

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom”
― General George S. Patton

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
― Mark Twain

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton