1889 · Skopia

Showing 16 quotes from 1889

Twilight of the Idols · 1889

★ 7.7

East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

The Ballad of East and West · 1889

★ 7.5

The man of business…goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure before his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week.

George Bernard Shaw

1889

★ 5.2

Novel

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · 1889

★ 3.9

Personal journal

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Mark Twain

1889

★ 3.9

Novel

No people in the world ever did achieve freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must begin in blood.

Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · 1889

★ 3.8

Novel

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

1889

★ 3.5

Novel

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome K. Jerome

1889

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols · 1889

★ 2.3

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

1889

★ 2.0

Poem · Children's literature

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe- Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.

Eugene Field

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod · 1889

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

The privileges of American citizenship are so great and its duties so grave that we may well insist upon a good knowledge of every person applying for citizenship and a good knowledge by him of our institutions. We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.

Benjamin Harrison

Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison · 1889

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations.

Benjamin Harrison

Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison · 1889

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

God has placed upon our head a diadem and has laid at our feet power and wealth beyond definition or calculation. But we must not forget that we take these gifts upon the condition that justice and mercy shall hold the reins of power and that the upward avenues of hope shall be free to all the people.

Benjamin Harrison

Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison · 1889

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

A community where law is the rule of conduct and where courts, not mobs, execute its penalties is the only attractive field for business investments and honest labor.

Benjamin Harrison

Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison · 1889

★ 1.9

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

Andrew Carnegie

1889

★ 1.1