Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882

Topics

TimeManSurpriseKnowWillMore

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

Joe Torre

HistoryOrganizationDeepThinkYou

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

FoodManExerciseTemptationKnife

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

John Lahr

SportsTogetherNew YorkNewTwo

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

John Malkovich

FashionThinkClothesYouWatchEra

Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!

John Hillcoat

PeopleMeThinkGeniusComedyYou

Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.

Jeff Van Gundy

FireBasketballToughDetroitCoach

Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me.

Michael Connelly

CarMeTen YearsYearsTenEight

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

LoveGreatWomanGreat ThingsThings

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

Lucy Larcom

NatureSmallMeasurePersonIgnorant

I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.

Don Rickles

WorkSoulRestOverBarStage

In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

Donald Hall

WifeDriveFirstThroughLeft

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

Donald Rumsfeld

OffPressRecord

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