Famous Quotes / Nicholas Murray Butler
9 Quotations by Nicholas Murray Butler
- 1. America is the best half-educated country in the world.
- 2. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything ab ...
- 3. Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
- 4. Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
- 5. People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen ...
- 6. Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition ...
- 7. The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
- 8. The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
- 9. The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experimen ...