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I just got to a point where I was lying to myself constantly, so I had to face up to that. It was a lot of... I don't want to use the wordsself sacrifice,but that's what it felt like. It was giving up who I thought I was and starting over from scratch and realizing the man that I am was good enough.
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.
A huge problem we face when we're in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.
A triviality is a statement whose opposite is false. However, a great truth is a statement whose opposite may well be another great truth.
'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
Accountants and market researchers may be brilliant at examining and analysing facts about the past, but they have no forward vision.
Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
Throne of Glassreaders tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcomingTOGreaders are to new fans.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
I don't make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to.
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Whenever you fall, pick up something.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Fame is failure disguised as money.
Accounting issues did not cause Enron's stock price to fall - its failed business model did.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Start with your own money and value your intuition. It's all about endurance in the beginning. Your dream and passion to succeed must be stronger than your fear of failure.
The only real failure is giving up.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Victory has a hundred fathers, but no one wants to recognise defeat as his own.
'Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
The most common cause of executive failure is inability or unwillingness to change with the demands of a new position. The executive who keeps on doing what he has done successfully before is almost bound to fail.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Failing is good as long as it doesn't become a habit.
Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.
I think a man is a business failure who lets his family life interfere with his business record ... business is no place for him.
You can only stumble if you're moving.
Failure is a learning experience. It can be a gravestone or a stepping stone.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents 1 per cent of your work which results from the 99 per cent that is called failure.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
If we are to be more prosperous we need more millionaires and more bankrupts.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Observing your own and your competitor's successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.
It is not impossibilities which fill us with deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is,Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.
If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
If you want to become physically stronger, you'll need healthy habits - like going to the gym. You'll also have to give up unhealthy habits - like eating junk food. Building mental strength requires healthy habits - like practicing gratitude - while also giving up unhealthy behavior, like giving up after the first failure.
There are interesting failures. There are prestige failures, and there are financial failures, but this is the sort of failure that gives failures a bad name.
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that, when your position fails, your ego goes with it.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.
My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their employees there would have been no unions.
For Justice, though she's painted blind,
Is to the weaker side inclin'd,
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work.
A long line of cases shows that it is not merely of some importance, but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.
If this is justice, I am a banana.
He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
In England, Justice is open to all, like the Ritz hotel.
Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
What I say is thatjustorrightmeans nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
One should always play fairly - when one has the winning cards.
A celebrity is one who works hard all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized.
A test of whether you have achieved true fame is when a deranged person believes himself to be you.
Fame is failure disguised as money.
Physicians of the Utmost Fame
Were called at once; but when they came
They answered, as they took their Fees,
There is no cure for this disease.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is what others think you are.
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Adieu to Liberty! Adieu to Fame!
For other gifts, for softer joys I pine;
In one fair breast I wish a mutual flame,
In one fair breast alone to burn with mine.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience ... I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.
Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
For the whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; the same is true of fame.
The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth - all that is illusion.
You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
When you retire ... you go from who's who to who's that, like stepping off the pier (or) achieving statutory senility.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations ... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
There is no education like adversity.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Only the educated are free.
Remember that time is money.
I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by history of the past.
I find that pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say,We did this ourselves.
Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
I was like a hit album waiting to be released. I knew my day would come.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
I've got my hardcore fans, and I thank them so much for being there for me and not giving up on me.
Throne of Glassreaders tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcomingTOGreaders are to new fans.
You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
What the brassière said to the top hat:You go on ahead while I give these two a lift.
Clothes are our weapons, our challenges, and our visible insult.
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes; men who like women never notice what they wear.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.
What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.
Haute Couture should be fun, foolish, and almost unwearable.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
When a woman is wearing shorts her charms are enlarged without being enhanced.
We Bishops, in our proper dress, originated the mini-skirt. But we allowed Mary Quant to steal the thunder and make three million quid out of it last year.
Fashion is something barbarous for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.
I like to dress egos.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5.
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men, and his aversion to lean ones.
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?
Alfred Hitchcock: One look at you, Mr Shaw, and I know there's famine in the land.
Bernard Shaw: One look at you, Mr Hitchcock, and I know who caused it.
Going to marry her! Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself ... There is enough of her to furnish wives for a whole parish ... You might people a colony with her; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting-places, and you were in rude health.
Each man the architect of his own fate.
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you'll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you'll eat yourself.
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
If you can't change your fate change your attitude.
For Man is man and master of his fate.
It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Women's faults are many
Men have only two:
Everything they say
And everything they do.
Many owe their greatness to their enemies. Flattery is fiercer than hatred, for hatred corrects the faults flattery had disguised.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
There is no fear in love; but
perfect love casteth out fear: be-
cause fear hath torment. He that
feareth is not made perfect in
love.
Wicked men obey for fear; good men, from love.
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
Start with your own money and value your intuition. It's all about endurance in the beginning. Your dream and passion to succeed must be stronger than your fear of failure.
No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see heaven's glories shine, and faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
We are all musicians, and we're not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been bestowed on us, and we don't want to disappoint. So I guess our biggest fear would be, just giving up.
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
Greed is even more contagious than fear.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.
Others appear frozen in the headlights - aware of the likely impact, yet paralysed by the fear of major transformations.
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
Success is power; because it maketh reputation of wisdom, or good fortune; which makes men either fear him or rely on him.
The realhavesare they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the realhave notsare they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.
My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn't stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
The thing I fear most is fear.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.
No organizational action has more power for motivating employee behavior change than feedback from credible work associates.
Cheers hearten a man. But jeers are just as essential. They help maintain his sense of balance and proportion.
Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.
The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.
If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.
There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles.
I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
People will forget what you said
Poeple will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel.
The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and everyone always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling.
For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man.To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service.Bravo.Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling.Bravo!
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Tact consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do.
When it's time to make a decision about a person or problem ... trust your intuition ... act.
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.
I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,
And the Easter bells be ringing!
Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all
the glad New-year;
Of all the glad New-year, mother, the
maddest merriest day;
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother,
I'm to be Queen o' the May.
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
You can't fight against the future. Time is on our side.
I've found that when it came to doing something I loved and fighting for it, things worked out. If you're going to kill yourself to develop something, you've got to enjoy it.
I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
I'm a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not.
I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you,he said,
and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.
I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Between us, love the buses at the door the long glass street two years, my death to yours my death upon your lips my face becoming glass strong challenged time making me win immortal our street our river a deadly glass to hold. Now they are feeding me into a steel mill furnace O love the stream of glass a stream of living fire.
Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.
There is no such thing as great talent without great will-power.
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Never make concessions.
Be careful, be cautious, do not rush into negotiations ... be careful what you give away now, you may wish you had not done so should in future the balance of forces turn in your favour.
We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catch-phrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say.You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Many owe their greatness to their enemies. Flattery is fiercer than hatred, for hatred corrects the faults flattery had disguised.
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
I suppose flattery hurts no one - that is, if he doesn't inhale.
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That Vanity's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to taste a bit.
I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
There's a sucker born every minute.
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
I have always heard it said, that to do a kindness to clowns, is like throwing water into the sea.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
Never give a sucker an even break.
There are only two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money away from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
He that teaches himself hath a fool for a master.
Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do.
Oh, innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse;
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.
As usual, there's a great woman behind every idiot.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.
Experience! Wise men do not need it.
Experience! Idiots do not heed it.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools:
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That Vanity's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to taste a bit.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding, from which comes idiot children and more lawyers.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you,he said,
and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
Freedom is a more complex and delicate thing than force. It is not as simple to live under as force is.
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
One can't say that figures lie. But figures, as used in financial arguments, seem to have the bad habit of expressing a small part of the truth forcibly, and neglecting the other part, as do some people we know.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
We rely on skilled foreign workers for their math, science, and creative abilities as well as their cultural knowledge, which helps when localizing products for world markets.
People will forget what you said
Poeple will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel.
God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
God has forgotten me.
If something pleasant happens to you, don't forget to tell it to your friends, to make them feel bad.
I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you,he said,
and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.
If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Three things happen when you get to my age. First your memory starts to go ... and I have forgotten the other two.
Nobody ever fergits where he buried a hatchet.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn't stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same persons?
Happiness ... lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Ever think of introducing yourself?Y.T. says.
Nah,he says,people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces, and - the third I can't remember.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
If money is your motivation, forget it.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one's resolve to retaliate.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Nobody ever fergits where he buried a hatchet.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
And blessings on the falling out
That all the more endears,
When we fall out with those we love
And kiss again with tears!
After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness - its opposite - never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Must, bid the Morn awake,
Sad Winter now declines,
Each Bird doth choose a mate,
This day's Saint Valentine's;
For that good Bishop's sake
Get up, and let us see
What Beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
Success is power; because it maketh reputation of wisdom, or good fortune; which makes men either fear him or rely on him.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
If we want to preserve the foundation of our democracy, it's vital that we find common ground that allows us to work for the greater good of this nation. This does not mean giving up our values. This does not mean swallowing a bitter compromise.
When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things go awry, and that's where the walks come in. I'm not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Only the educated are free.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
That rugged individualism that is the personification of our American sense of freedom, and which we celebrate on the Fourth of July and in our popular myths and heroes, also contributes to the breakdown of the social fabric that has always provided a secure context for our freedoms. Freedomfromhas not yet yielded to an appropriate freedomfor.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
The realhavesare they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the realhave notsare they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.
I understand, of course, that many people find smoking objectionable. That is their right. I would, I assure you, be the very last to criticize the annoyed. I myself find many - even most - things objectionable. Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs. In private I avoid such people; in public they have the run of the place. I stay at home as much as possible, and so should they. When it is necessary, however, to go out of the house, they must be prepared, as I am, to deal with the unpleasant personal habits of others. That is whatpublicmeans.
We sometimes take for granted the freedom and power of independent thought and action. And only after it's been compromised, do we fully realize how fundamental it is to the pursuit of economic opportunity.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
Freedom is a more complex and delicate thing than force. It is not as simple to live under as force is.
Sing in the tones of prayer,
Sing till the soaring soul
Shall float above the world's control
In Freedom everywhere!
Sing for the good that is to be,
Sing for the eyes that are to see
The land where man at last is free,
O sing for Liberty!
If we take the term in the strict sense, there never has been a real democracy, and there never will be. It is against the natural order for the many to govern and the few to be governed.
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
To accept a favour is to sell one's freedom.
It is a free press ... There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.
The Khomeini cry for the execution of Rushdie is an infantile cry. From the beginning of time we have seen that. To murder the thinker does not murder the thought.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
In every era, society must strike the right balance between the freedom businesses need to compete for a market share and to make profits and the preservation of family and community values.
Only the educated are free.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
That rugged individualism that is the personification of our American sense of freedom, and which we celebrate on the Fourth of July and in our popular myths and heroes, also contributes to the breakdown of the social fabric that has always provided a secure context for our freedoms. Freedomfromhas not yet yielded to an appropriate freedomfor.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
The realhavesare they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the realhave notsare they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.
I understand, of course, that many people find smoking objectionable. That is their right. I would, I assure you, be the very last to criticize the annoyed. I myself find many - even most - things objectionable. Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs. In private I avoid such people; in public they have the run of the place. I stay at home as much as possible, and so should they. When it is necessary, however, to go out of the house, they must be prepared, as I am, to deal with the unpleasant personal habits of others. That is whatpublicmeans.
We sometimes take for granted the freedom and power of independent thought and action. And only after it's been compromised, do we fully realize how fundamental it is to the pursuit of economic opportunity.
The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
Freedom is a more complex and delicate thing than force. It is not as simple to live under as force is.
Sing in the tones of prayer,
Sing till the soaring soul
Shall float above the world's control
In Freedom everywhere!
Sing for the good that is to be,
Sing for the eyes that are to see
The land where man at last is free,
O sing for Liberty!
If we take the term in the strict sense, there never has been a real democracy, and there never will be. It is against the natural order for the many to govern and the few to be governed.
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
It is a free press ... There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.
The Khomeini cry for the execution of Rushdie is an infantile cry. From the beginning of time we have seen that. To murder the thinker does not murder the thought.
It takes seventy-two muscles to frown, but only thirteen to smile.
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
If you are having as much fun running a big corporation as you did running a piece of it, then you are probably interfering too much with the people who really make it happen.
The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than fun.
It's fun to do things that people don't think are possible or likely.
You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem.
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Politics should be fun - politicians have no right to be pompous or po-faced. The moment politics become dull, democracy is in danger.
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.
The simplest toy, on which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
One would be in less danger
From the wiles of the stranger
If one's own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with.
Winners are people who have fun - and produce results as a result of their zest.
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient - euphoria.
Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
I prefer the wordhomemakerbecausehousewifealways implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A consultant is a person who takes your money and annoys your employees while tirelessly searching for the best way to extend the consulting contract.
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Consultants eventually leave, which makes them excellent scapegoats for major management blunders.
The biggest change in the workplace of the future will be the widespread realization that having one idiot boss is a much higher risk than having many idiot clients.
A celebrity is one who works hard all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized.
A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.
A test of whether you have achieved true fame is when a deranged person believes himself to be you.
God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
If the soup had been as warm as the wine, and the wine as old as the fish, and the fish as young as the maid, and the maid as willing as the hostess, it would have been a very good meal.
The codfish lays ten thousand eggs
The homely hen lays one.
The codfish never cackles
To tell you that she's done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
While the humble hen we prize,
Which only goes to show you
That it pays to advertise.
There are three kinds of lie: a small lie, a big lie and politics.
What the brassière said to the top hat:You go on ahead while I give these two a lift.
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Salad. I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know. Have you noticed? You start one side of your plate and by the time you've got to the other, there's a fresh crop of lettuce taken root and sprouted up.
Woe betide the man who dares to pay a woman a compliment today ... Forget the flowers, the chocolates, the soft word - rather woo her with a self-defence manual in one hand and a family planning leaflet in the other.
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
When you apply the word power to a man, it means strong and bold - very positive attributes. When you use it to describe a woman, it suggests bitchy, insensitive, hard.
For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
There's a sucker born every minute.
Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5.
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
Fame is failure disguised as money.
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemetries.
I never sleep through a performance. I always make sure that I am awake for the intermission.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key.
Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
You only have to survive in England and all is forgiven you ... if you can eat a boiled egg at ninety in England they think you deserve a Nobel Prize.
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
That favourite subject, Myself.
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
Wall Street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from people who take the subway.
Our wrangling lawyers ... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
Genius ... has been described as a supreme capacity for taking trouble ... It might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains.
Home, Sweet Homemust surely have been written by a bachelor.
God has forgotten me.
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet - perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, Good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, Oh, save me from the candid friend!
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
That's the reason they're called lessons,the Gryphon remarked:because they lessen from day to day.
He was a man with a great future behind him.
If something pleasant happens to you, don't forget to tell it to your friends, to make them feel bad.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.
Of all the modern phenomena, the most monstrous and ominous, the most manifestly rotting with disease, the most grimly prophetic of destruction, the most clearly and unmistakably inspired by evil spirits, the most instantly and awfully overshadowed by the wrath of heaven, the most near to madness and moral chaos, the most vivid with devilry and despair, is the practice of having to listen to loud music while eating a meal in a restaurant.
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Odd things animals. All dogs look up at you. All cats look down at you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal.
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.
Last night I dreamt I ate a ten-pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
The thing that best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise.
Never trust men with short legs. Brains too near their bottoms.
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
Running after women never hurt anybody - it's catching 'em that does the damage.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Whoever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick.
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him - two.
We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home, and the most to institutionalize him.
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.
Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
When the meek inherit the earth, lawyers will be there to work out the deal.
A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
He that teaches himself hath a fool for a master.
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's the wife who can't cook and will.
A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors.
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
My momma always said, life was like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get.
Oh, innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse;
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
Accountants are the witch-doctors of the modern world and willing to turn their hands to any kind of magic.
Three things happen when you get to my age. First your memory starts to go ... and I have forgotten the other two.
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's; she changes it more often.
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
If this is justice, I am a banana.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Distant relatives are the best kind, and the further the better.
Nobody ever fergits where he buried a hatchet.
I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men, and his aversion to lean ones.
Making and preserving friends. Select some sound hearts. Be careful not to bruise them with unfeeling words. Take of milk of human kindness one heartful. Add to this plenty of tact. Warm the mixture with plenty of sympathy. Do not let it get too hot at first, lest it only ferment mischief. Knead with plenty of oil of unselfishness to make all smooth. Beware of jars (lovely wording). The mixture should be kept in a warm corner of the heart. Years only serve to improve the flavour of friends thus preserved.
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting to think about than sex.
Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
If you haven't struck oil in your first three minutes, stop boring!
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half-hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.
Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.
I feel sorry for those who live without competition ... fat, dumb, and unhappy in cradle-to-grave security.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
I don't like to hire consultants. They're like castrated bulls: all they can do is advise.
I see nothing wrong with power as long as I am the fellow who has it.
I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was - like eating an egg without salt.
What do you do when your competitor's drowning? Get a live hose and stick it in his mouth.
As usual, there's a great woman behind every idiot.
When you ask one friend to dine,
Give him your best wine!
When you ask two,
The second best will do!
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail.
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
Age is other things too. It is wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience and knowledge. And it is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
As to those who can find it in them to employ the doubtlessly useful wordbrunch, do they, I wonder, ever up-grade it tobruncheon? This is the kind of question I ponder on while waiting for the kettle to boil. The active mind is never at rest.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
In England, Justice is open to all, like the Ritz hotel.
People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal.
The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.
Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and only the pig enjoys himself.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make a better soup.
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
Restaurants have this in common with ladies: the best are often not the most enjoyable, nor the grandest the most friendly, and the pleasures of the evening are frequently spoiled by the writing of an exorbitant cheque.
It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.
Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
You don't need to interpret the tea leaves stuck in a cup to understand that people who work sitting down get paid more than those people who work standing up.
When a woman is wearing shorts her charms are enlarged without being enhanced.
There are interesting failures. There are prestige failures, and there are financial failures, but this is the sort of failure that gives failures a bad name.
Middle age is when, wherever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.
Everywhere I go I am asked if university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.
Bureaucratic time ... slower than geologic time but more expensive than time spent with Madame Claude's girls in Paris.
Dating is a social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superseded.
By the time you say you're his,
Shivering and sighing
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At General Motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is hire a consultant on snakes.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at becoming incompetent.
The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
We Bishops, in our proper dress, originated the mini-skirt. But we allowed Mary Quant to steal the thunder and make three million quid out of it last year.
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.
I don't make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.
Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up by one.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that theydon't understandone another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.
Fashion is something barbarous for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
Contract: an agreement that is binding on the weaker party.*
Father's Day was comical in part because fathers seemed so out of place or uncomfortable in this holiday world of sentimental gifts and domestic flattery. Thelittle remembrancesof flowers, cards, and novelties became funny when showered on Father; they opened up a line of humor that played on the gendered incongruities of holiday gift giving. As one editorial writer on the holiday put the matter in 1925, fathers have 'no talent for the fribbles and frabbles and furbelows with which Mother signalizes well-being.
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Please return this book; I find that though many of my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all good bookkeepers.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
Alfred Hitchcock: One look at you, Mr Shaw, and I know there's famine in the land.
Bernard Shaw: One look at you, Mr Hitchcock, and I know who caused it.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
What God hath joined together no man shall ever put asunder; God will take care of that.
What if the child inherits my beauty and your brains?
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
I can't stand whispering. Every time a doctor whispers in the hospital, next day there's a funeral.
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life - save only this - that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Going to marry her! Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself ... There is enough of her to furnish wives for a whole parish ... You might people a colony with her; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting-places, and you were in rude health.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
I suppose flattery hurts no one - that is, if he doesn't inhale.
A diplomat ... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Family! ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
I loathe people who keep dogs. They're cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves.
There should be some professional exam for these analysts. Most of the time they talk through their backsides.
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces, and - the third I can't remember.
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.
Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.
Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
He had had much experience of physicians, and saidthe only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it, but I couldn't find honest employment.
I don't mind what the opposition say of me, so long as they don't tell the truth about me; but when they descend to telling the truth about me, I consider that is taking an unfair advantage.
I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
I have never taken any exercise, except for sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome.
I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
I was born modest, but it didn't last.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
In the matter of diet - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things that didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it.
It is a free press ... There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to charity, wait, and count to forty. To save three-quarters, count sixty. To save it all, count sixty-five.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
That is just the way of the world; an enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
My prayer to God is a very short one:O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.God has granted it.
Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding, from which comes idiot children and more lawyers.
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Be careful to choose your enemies well. Friends don't much matter. But the choice of enemies is very important.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Divorces are made in heaven.
Examinations are of no value whatsoever. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations with myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
I only care to see doctors when I am in perfect health; then they comfort one, but when one is ill they are most depressing.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But ... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
One should always play fairly - when one has the winning cards.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
To lose one parent...may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know how much oil one must mix with one's vinegar.
When I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself; and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and are not.
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; and now I have six children, and no theories.
You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
I'd like to introduce you to some friends of mine. I want to break off with them.
My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts eating.
My wife wanted her face lifted. They couldn't do that. But for $80, they lowered her body.
Now she's on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight. But she can climb a tree!
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
He was a man with a great future behind him.
Accountants and market researchers may be brilliant at examining and analysing facts about the past, but they have no forward vision.
Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the future of present decisions.
You can't fight against the future. Time is on our side.
It is extremely important that you show some insensitivity to your past in order to show the proper respect for the future.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by history of the past.
I see many youngsters giving up their IT jobs and going to farming or taking up organic farming so that kids in future will stay a bit more healthier. That's one cause I really want to take up.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four, and Five as pure fantasy ... Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.
Who controls the past controls ... the future: who controls the present controls the past.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.