Famous Quotes

"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."

John Burroughs on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by John Burroughs

• "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

• "If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."

• "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

• "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

• "A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."