Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Lenny Bruce: Dirty
“You can’t do anything with anybody’s body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person — you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.” —Lenny Bruce, comedian and social critic (1925-1966) Embed from Getty Images
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Henry Taylor: Conscience
“Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. ” ~Henry Taylor Embed from Getty Images
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J K Rowling: Voices
“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.” ~J K Rowling. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/98263831
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Anonymous: Slights
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/126154712 “If slighted, slight the slight, and love the slighter.” ~Anonymous http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/126161597
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John Vanbrugh: Slighted woman
A slighted woman knows no bounds. ~John Vanbrugh Embed from Getty Images
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Antipathy
“Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it – to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Hosea Ballou: Patient inquiry
“Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.” Hosea Ballou
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Mickey Rooney: Marriage licence
“I’m the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern. ” —Mickey Rooney Embed from Getty Images
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Harvey Fierstein: Define yourself
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~Harvey Fierstein Embed from Getty Images
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Bernard Levin: Electoral decisions
“Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. ” Bernard Levin
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William Bennet Munro: Resentment, not appreciation
“People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.” ~William Bennet Munro
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Unknown: Mud and stars
Embed from Getty Images “Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.” ~Unknown.
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Jonathan Swift: Writer's privilege
“There are certain common Privileges of a Writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt; Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath.” ~Jonathan Swift.
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Thomas Henry Huxley: Great advances
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. “ —Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895) Embed from Getty Images
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Perfection
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. “ —Antoine de Saint-Exupery Embed from Getty Images
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M H Mahon: Daily exercise
“Two hours’ daily exercise… will be enough to keep a hack fit for his work.” ~M H Mahon.
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J D Salinger: Paranoia
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” ~J D Salinger.
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George Burns: One hundred
Embed from Getty Images “If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.” ~George Burns.
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Tallulah Bankhead: Night watchman
“It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work-the night watchman.” –Tallulah Bankhead Embed from Getty Images
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Irish Proverb: Shelter of each other
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.” ~Irish proverb.
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James Thurber: Loaf-a-bout
“It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.” ~James Thurber. Embed from Getty Images
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Oscar Wilde: Indiscreet answers
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/79044943 “Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.” ~Oscar Wilde.
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Ian K. Smith: Men and successful women
“Men don’t avoid successful women because they’re jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.” ~Ian K. Smith.
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Samuel Johnson: Reason and vigilance
“There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.” ~Samuel Johnson,English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784 Embed from Getty Images
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Mervyn Peake: Clever
“I am clever enough to know that I am clever.” ~Mervyn Peake. Embed from Getty Images
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Edward Gibbon: History
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” ~Edward Gibbon. Embed from Getty Images
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Winston Churchill: Crocodile
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” ~Winston Churchill. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/108093937
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Confucius: Diamonds and pebbles
Embed from Getty Images “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” ~Confucius
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Vijay Seshadri: Impossibility
“The soul, like the square root of minus 1, is an impossibility that has its uses.” ~Vijay Seshadri.
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Thomas Jefferson: Morality code
“I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man. ” ~Thomas Jefferson
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Malcolm Forbes: Happiness
“When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness. ” Malcolm Forbes Embed from Getty Images
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Sue Atchley Ebaugh: Greatest gift
“The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another’s existence.” ~Sue Atchley Ebaugh
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Kara Goucher: Running
“Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary—something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. The best thing about running is the joy it brings to life.” ~Kara Goucher Embed from Getty Images
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Unknown: Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
Embed from Getty Images “Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.” Unknown Embed from Getty Images
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Time
“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/167160315
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Cullen Hightower: Worth and success
“The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. ” ~Cullen Hightower Embed from Getty Images
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Ambrose Pierce: Fidelity
“Fidelity, n: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.” ~Ambrose Bierce.
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James Joyce: Mistakes
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ” ~James Joyce Embed from Getty Images
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Nelson Mandela: Hills
“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” ~Nelson Mandela. Embed from Getty Images
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Unknown: Spoken word
“The written word can be erased – not so with the spoken word.” —Author Unknown.
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Beth Brooke: Promotion and women
Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don’t get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion. ~Beth Brooke
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Gilbert Murray: Be careful
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul. ~Gilbert Murray Embed from Getty Images
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Georg C. Lichtenberg: Doubt and vigilance
“Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.” ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Tim Berners-Lee: Browse
Embed from Getty Images “You affect the world by what you browse.” ~Tim Berners-Lee.
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A crowd always thinks – William R Alger
Originally posted on Ajaytao Quotes Blog: A crowd always thinks – William R Alger
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David Ogilvy: Advertising vernacular
“I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. ” ~David Ogilvy
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Curtis Jackson: In the 'hood
“You can buy cars but you can’t buy respect in the ‘hood” —Curtis Jackson.
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Billy Sunday: Christianity
“Christianity means a lot more than church membership. ” —Billy Sunday Embed from Getty Images
