Robert G Ingersoll Love Quotes and Sayings

Robert G Ingersoll Love Quotes and Sayings

#1 Wit, Wisdom and Eloquence, Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, 1885

1. …I should rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

#2 The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child, The Ghosts: And Other Lectures, C. P. Farrell, 1892

2. And do you know, it is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you love and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; he does not tremble; he is not old; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart.

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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism.
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Sayings by Robert G. Ingersoll

#1 The Gods, The Gods, and Other Lectures, C.P. Farrell, 1879

1. Reason, Observation and Experience—the Holy Trinity of Science—have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.

#2 CENTENNIAL ORATION, 4 July 1876, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 9 (of 12) [S]

2. The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

#3 Fragments, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12)

3. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

#4 A TRIBUTE TO HORACE SEAVER, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 [S]

4. Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth. Over all wealth, above all station, above the noble, the robed and crowned, rises the sincere man. Happy is the man who neither paints nor patches, veils nor veneers! Blessed is he who wears no mask.

#5-6 The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) [S]

5. The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

6. As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than to rot in any orthodox harbor whatever.

#7 THE LIEDERKRANZ CLUB, SEIDL-STANTON BANQUET, New York, 2 April 1891, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) [S]

7. Music expresses feeling and thought, without language. It was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

#8 THE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 [S]

8. All our duties lie within reach—all our duties are right here; and my religion is simply this:

First. Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Second. If you tell your thought at all, tell your honest thought. Do not be a parrot—do not be an instrumentality for an organization. Tell your own thought, honor bright, what you think.

#9-12 The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) [S]

9. Arguments cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

10. There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences. (The Christian Religion; Ingersoll’s Opening Paper)

11. We know that acts are good or bad only as they effect the actors, and others. We know that from every good act good consequences flow, and that from every bad act there are only evil results.

12. …happiness is not a reward—it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment—it is a result. (#11-12 The Christian Religion by Robert G. Ingersoll)

#13-14 About Farming in Illinois, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 [S]

13. We should try and choose that business or profession the pursuit of which will give us the most happiness. Happiness is wealth. We can be happy without being rich—without holding office—without being famous. I am not sure that we can be happy with wealth, with office, or with fame.

14. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education, than education without the sense.

#15-16 WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 [S]

15. Let us be true to ourselves—true to the facts we know, and let us, above all things, preserve the veracity of our souls.

16. We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

#17 How to Reform Mankind [S]

17 The present is the child, and the necessary child, of all the past, and the mother of all the future.

#18 ADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, 22 October, 1883, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) [S]

18. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

#19 My Reviewers Reviewed, Lecture, San Francisco, 27 June 1877, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12)

19. The great question is not, who died right, but who lived right? There is infinitely more responsibility in living than in dying. The moment of death is the most unimportant moment of life. Nothing can be done then. You cannot even do a favor for a friend, except to remember him in your will.

#20-22 Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy, May 1887 [S]

20. Every man who has thought, knows not only how little he knows, but how little every other human being knows, and how ignorant after all the world must be.

21. …let us judge each other by our actions, not by theories, not by what we happen to believe—because that depends very much on where we were born.

22. It is very easy to sail along with the majority—easy to sail the way the boats are going—easy to float with the stream; but when you come to swim against the tide, with the men on the shore throwing rocks at you, you will get a good deal of exercise in this world.