Top 71 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Harvey
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Paul Harvey.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.
What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is 'Sir' to his face and 'Fuzz' to his back.
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.
Now you know the rest of the story.
When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back.
Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.
Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.
Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.
When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.
Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.
We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.
If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.
Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.
Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line. ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word.
The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes')..., ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticised (him) for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum.
Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)
The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.
Self Government won't work without self discipline.
Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.
You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.
Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.
Growth is the process of responding positively to change.
In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.
The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.
If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?
Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?
Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.
I just get up again when I fall down.
For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.
I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."
Life must always go on and Yoga is not about an escape from life. Yoga's about a way of dealing with life more effectively; to be able to involve oneself with one's family, one's friends, one's social commitments, one's job and yet at the same time maintain one's centre.
We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.
If you don't live it, you don't believe it.
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.
The only ones to get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.
Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.
Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
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