Quotes
Quotes - Ingersoll
These heroes are dead. They died for liberty--they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars--they are at peace. In the midst of battles, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death.
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud--and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Is there beyond the silent night
An endless day?
Is death a door that leads to light?
We cannot say.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
