Edwin Markham Quotes

I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

But I think it's important that things endure.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

Nature abhors annihilation.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

Make sure that they do not break anything because we are coming back in 4 years

I do not like to see anything destroyed; any void produced in society; any ruin on the face of the land.

When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.

We don't want to be hot; we want to last - because eventually hot gets cooled down.

I don't fear that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.