The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Bigotry Quotes

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds...

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds...

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by...

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he...

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he...

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

Life is a great bundle of little things.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were...

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were...

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...