#si

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#am #become #constant #disappointment #fact

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#american people #brain #due #humor #infusion

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#does #freedom #gives #love #possession

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dark #great #great silence #great truth #sea

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dust #forgets #gloom #god #out

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#gray hairs #hairs #hold #signs #speak

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#flower #need #numerous #single #thorns

Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here. ↗

— George Takei

#asian #difficult #every #every time #going

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King. ↗

— George Takei

#fly #i #king #luther #marched