Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Thomas Paine: Error, not truth
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” —Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809).
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Sigmund Freud: Indisputable favourite
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. ” —Sigmund Freud
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Emile M Cioran: Tolerance
“Tolerance — the function of an extinguished ardor — tolerance cannot seduce the young. ” —Emile M Cioran
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Robert Frost: Men and boys
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ” —Robert Frost.
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Ernest Hemingway: The best people
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” —Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961).
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Jessamyn West: Facial truth
“Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.” —Jessamyn West, novelist (1902-1984).
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Marilyn Monroe: My worst, my best
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” –Marilyn Monroe Related articles Marilyn quote: deserve me(thezoepages.com) 15 quotes by Marilyn Monroe(cath-b.com)…
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Robert Wilensky: Monkeying around…
“”We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.”” —Robert Wilensky.
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Russian proverb: When money speaks…
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. –Russian proverb Related articles daily encouragement(nishitab.wordpress.com) Proverbs From Around the World – N to Z(ptbertram.wordpress.com)
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Nothing new
“Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new. ” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Eddie Cantor: Truth or tact
“Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.” Eddie Cantor
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Robert A. Heinlein: Love
‘”Love” is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.’ —Robert A. Heinlein
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G K Chesterton: Virtue
“Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.” —G K Chesterton
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Stop thinking and go in
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” —Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Alex King: Time
Experience has shown that our best customers are ones who have as much respect for our time as we have for theirs. -Alex King
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Actions, consequences and desired results
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. –Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (b. 1949) Related articles…
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Giordano Bruno: When the end comes
“When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I … what you receive from others is a testimony to their…
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Khandi Alexander: Comedy
“I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing. ” —Khandi Alexander Related articles Khandi Alexander on the End of ‘Treme’ and Rebuilding LaDonna(netflowers.wordpress.com)
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Leonard Bernstein: Not enough time
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ” —Leonard Bernstein Related articles About Leonard Bernstein(wqxr.org) Top Five Beethoven Quotes & Samples in Popular Music(wqxr.org)
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Soren Kierkegaard: Prayer
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ” —Soren Kierkegaard
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Herman Melville: Fail in originality
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ” —Herman Melville.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Wrong-doer
“A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.” —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
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Jodie Foster: Cruelty
“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable. ” –—Jodie Foster
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George Bernard Shaw: What God hath joined together…
“What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Saints
“Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ” —Christian Nestell Bovee.
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Jerome K. Jerome: Idling and working
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. –Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and…
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Confucius: Superior man
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.” —Confucius.
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Donald G. Smith: Be a pest
“If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it.” —Donald G. Smith
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Arabic proverb: Wise man and idiot
“The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.” Arabic Proverb.
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Alexander Pope: Love and hate
“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. ” —Alexander Pope.
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Voltaire: Who rules?
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” —Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778).
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Josh Cox: Be positive
“Be positive, ignore the critic, follow your heart, invest in your passions, believe in your dreams & get busy making them reality.” —Josh Cox, U.S. 50-K record holder.
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Simon Campbell: Stick to your knitting
“Stick to your knitting (what you’re good at), don’t compromise, and don’t suffer fools.” —Simon Campbell.
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William Glasser: Misery, a choice
“It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice. ” William Glasser
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Marissa Mayer: Google design
“Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our way of approaching it closed. It’s simple, it’s elegant, you can slip it in your pocket, but it’s got the great doodad when you need it. A lot of our competitors are like a Swiss Army knife open…
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David Grayson: Great burden
“The sense of wishing to be known only for what one really is is like putting on an old, easy, comfortable garment. You are no longer afraid of anybody or anything. You say to yourself, ‘Here I am — just so ugly, dull, poor, beautiful, rich, interesting, amusing, ridiculous — take me or leave me.’…
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Robert Stevenson: End of life
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”— Robert Lous Stevenson.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Mad destruction
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” —Mahatma Gandhi.
