Quotes by Carlyle Thomas
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
