You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beast's;
God is, they are,
read more
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beast's;
God is, they are,
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, read more
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation read more
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. read more
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!
He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.