Quote

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Happiness
Wagons
Without
Pebbles
Every
Mirth
Men
Springs
Like
Caused
Spring
Jolt
Motivational
Pebble
Turns
Wagon

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
You may say, I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball. Providence won't. You must do it and if you do not, you are a dead man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
Henry Ward Beecher