Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American politician Roger Chamberlain.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Roger C. Chamberlain is an American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represents District 38, which includes portions of Anoka, Ramsey, and Washington counties in the northeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a financial advisor for Thrivent Financial.
He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.
Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.
There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.
Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.
Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.
It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.
A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.