Famous Quotes / Robert Green Ingersoll
45 Quotations by Robert Green Ingersoll
- 1. A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact wi ...
- 2. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone ...
- 3. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- 4. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
- 5. Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
- 6. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
- 7. Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
- 8. Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
- 9. Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
- 10. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to b ...
- 11. He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
- 12. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- 13. Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
- 14. I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of ac ...
- 15. I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought ...
- 16. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
- 17. If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he woul ...
- 18. If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
- 19. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.
- 20. In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.