Agnes Sligh Turnbull

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can’t ever rub it off him.

[On religion:] Wasn’t it invented by man for a kind of solace? It’s as though he had said, ‘I’ll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,’ and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! … Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

The world is its own magic.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious – except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.