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Madame Cornuel: No hero to his valet
“No man is a hero to his valet.” —Madame Cornuel, wit, society hostess (1605-1694).
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Charlie Munger: Prepare for fast spurts
“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts… Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at…
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Katharine Hepburn: In the final analysis
“Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.” —Katharine Hepburn.
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G K Chesterton: Justice
“Justice is not a cold thing; it is one of the hottest, fiercest, and most fundamental of the buried fires of our being.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: EBITDA, a cash expense
“I get these people that…want to send me books with EBITDA in it, and I just tell them, you know, ‘I’ll look at that figure when you tell me you’ll make all the capital expenditures.’ If I’m going to make the capital expenditures, there’s very few businesses where I think I can spend a whole…
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Charlie Munger: Bullshit earnings
“I think you would understand any presentation using the word EBITDA, if every time you saw that word you just substituted the phrase, ‘bullshit earnings.’” —Charlie Munger.
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Robert Copeland: Committee
“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.” – Robert Copeland.
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Sir Arthur Eddington: Boys of a star gone wrong
“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.” —Sir Arthur Eddington.
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Mogens Jallberg: Counts and votes
“In democracy it’s your vote that counts; In feudalism it’s your count that votes.” – Mogens Jallberg.
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Groucho Marx: Too dark to read
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx.
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George Bernard Shaw: Hegel’s history lesson
“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.” – George Bernard Shaw.
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Ronald Reagan: Eating jellybeans
“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.” – Ronald Reagan
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Aldous Huxley: Two-thirds of miseries
“At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.” —Aldous Huxley.
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Quentin Crisp: Despise everybody
“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.” – Quentin Crisp.
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David Russell: Which bridge
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” – David Russell.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Further favors
“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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Tom Stoppard: Compound of two half-truths
“The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.” – Tom Stoppard.
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Friedrich von Schiller: Contend in vain
“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.” —Friedrich von Schiller.
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Albert Einstein: Locksmith
“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.” – Albert Einstein.
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Oscar Wilde: Only the shallow
“Only the shallow know themselves.” – Oscar Wilde.
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Philip Johnson: How to waste space
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space. – Philip Johnson.
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St. Augustine: But not yet
“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.” – Saint Augustine.
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Westheimer’s Discovery: Coupla months in the laboratory
“A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library.” – Westheimer’s Discovery.
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Joseph Sobran: No stable competing loyalty
“Without religion, the state faces no rival moral authority. Without property, freedom has no material basis, and everyone becomes dependent on the state for support. And without the family, the individual belongs almost wholly to the state, with no stable competing loyalty.” —Joseph Sobran.
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James Brown: Bring people joy just like church does
“When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.” —James Brown.
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Andy Cohen: Check yourself before you wreck yourself
“Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.” —Andy Cohen.
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Thomas A Kempis: Goodness of God
“If your heart were right, then every created thing would be a mirror of life for you and a book of holy teaching, for there is no creature so small and worthless that it does not show forth the goodness of God.” —Thomas A Kempis.
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G K Chesterton: Too few capitalists
“Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.” —G K Chesterton.
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Audrey Hepburn: Tearing through a museum
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.” —Audrey Hepburn.
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Richard Jeni: Death and divorce
“It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!” —Richard Jeni.
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Roy M Cohn: Law and judges
“I don’t want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.” —Roy M. Cohn.
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Anonymous: Voicism
“Voicism: Discriminating or stereotyping a person because of the sound of their voice.” —Anonymous.
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Anonymous: Successful man and woman
“A successful man is one who can earn more money than his wife can possibly spend. A successful woman is one who can find that man.” —Anonymous.
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Muhammad Ali: Staying down that’s wrong
“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” —Muhammad Ali.
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Bob Marley: No pain
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” —Bob Marley.
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Gerald Durrell: Half-educated
“I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.” —Gerald Durrell, naturalist and television presenter.
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Howard Baker: Cover-up
“It is almost always the cover-up than the event that causes trouble.” – Howard Baker.
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Robert Frost: Good fences
“Good fences make good neighbours.” ~ Robert Frost.
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Mark Twain: Lonesome
“Be good and you will be lonesome.” –Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910).
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Benjamin Franklin: Minding what others say
“Such is the vanity of mankind that minding what others say is a much surer way of pleasing them than talking well ourselves.” ~ Benjamin Franklin.
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Oscar Wilde: How you place the blame
“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.” ~ Oscar Wilde.
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Jack Parr: Immigration
“Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.” ~ Jack Parr.
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Harvey Ruben: Child who wants to play
“In every person is hidden a child who wants to play.” ~ Harvey Ruben.
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Benjamin Franklin: Praise her to her girl friends
“To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Paul Gauguin: One dreams of revenge
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.” – Paul Gauguin.
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Sister Miriam Joseph: Logic, grammar and rhetoric
“Because communication involves the simultaneous exercise of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, these three arts are the fundamental arts of education, of teaching, and of being taught. Accordingly, they must be practiced simultaneously by both teacher and pupil. The pupil must cooperate with the teacher; he must be active, not passive. The teacher may be present…
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Mark Nepo: Hardest thing I’ve learned
“The hardest thing I’ve learned, and still struggle with, is that I don’t have to be finished in order to be whole.” —Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening.
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Pope Pius XI: Not to absorb the family or individual
“Now this end and object, the common welfare in the temporal order, consists in that peace and security in which families and individual citizens have the free exercise of their rights, and at the same time enjoy the greatest spiritual and temporal prosperity possible in this life, by the mutual union and co-ordination of the…
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Will Rogers: Being a hero
“Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.” —Will Rogers.
