Top 175 Milton Quotes & Sayings

With the passing of Milton Friedman on November 16, 2006, we lost one of the great champions of free markets.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

I'm a big fan of economist Milton Freidman.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

I am a normal person from Milton Keynes.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'

I can't tell you how much more important watching 'Hellraiser' is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or something.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.

Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.

While I tend to side with economist Milton Freidman when it comes to free-market economics, there is a place for 'Made in the U.S.A.' where national security is concerned.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

The gym in Milton Keynes or wooden backboards at Chester - maybe it didn't feel that glamorous at the time, but it was fun.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

So many of the great thought leaders that have shaped economics - Gary Becker, Milton Friedman - what an unbelievable success story they've had in their field.

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.

And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.