Margaret Chase Smith Quotes

We haven't given our brain the ability to actually analyze something clearly and appropriately before we speak and before we take action.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

When people feel vulnerable, they make slapstick decisions.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

Those split-second decisions that you can't take back, that's what I need to continue to improve.

I don't try to make any decision of the impulse of my heart. I think things through and go from there.

If you overthink things, you end up doing things without the right reasons in mind.

When we talk about people or a party being on the wrong side of history, it usually requires some hindsight, a position of informed advantage to see clearly missteps that were less clear at the time of events.