Quotes of Smedley Butler

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War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

- Smedley Butler

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“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true. ”

- Victoria Moschou

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ”

- Cleveland Amory

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ”

- RuPaul

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Love all, trust a few. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. ”

- Gerard Way

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ You don't need a million dollars in the bank. You just have to have passion, hustle and drive ”

- Daymond John

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency. ”

- Shah Asad Rizvi

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In