There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

— James Russell Lowell

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

— James Russell Lowell

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (EZ a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

— James Russell Lowell

The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.

— James Russell Lowell

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

— James Russell Lowell

Though old the thought and oft express 'tis his at last who says it best.

— James Russell Lowell

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

— James Russell Lowell

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

— James Russell Lowell

Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne.

— James Russell Lowell

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

— James Russell Lowell