Langdon Elwyn Mitchell quotes
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“If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.”
-- Langdon Elwyn MitchellSource : Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1908). “The New York idea: a comedy in four acts”
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“Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.”
-- Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
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“Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.”
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“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.”
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Source : Amish Tripathi (2012). “The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy”, p.78, Hachette UK
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“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”
Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press
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“All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.”
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“Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.”
Source : Barbara Fredrickson (2010). “Positivity”, p.158, Oneworld Publications
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“Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.”
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