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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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Sallust: Bravery
“Necessity makes even the timid brave. ” ~Sallust
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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
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Woody Allen: Beverly Hills and television shows
“In Beverly Hills, they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.” ~Woody Allen http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/178222591
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Benjamin Disraeli: Permanent interests
“We have no permanent friends. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.” ~Benjamin Disraeli. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/489722515
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Dr. Anthony Daniels: Cruelty
“Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.” ~Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998) Embed from Getty Images
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Valerie Natress: Confusion
“There is nothing worse than falling prey To someone else’s confusion.” ~Valerie Natress
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Marlene Dietrich: Quotations
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. – Marlene Dietrich Embed from Getty Images
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Ajay Patri: Rumours
“…the basest of rumours have their origins in a tiny kernel of truth.” ~Ajay Patri in Shifting Lives.
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Richard Cecil: Punctuality
“If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. ” ~Richard Cecil
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Frederick Buechner: Beautiful and terrible
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” ~Frederick Buechner
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Thomas Alva Edison: Hallucination
“Vision without execution is hallucination.” ~Thomas Alva Edison. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2667565
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Henry Brooks Adams: Slippery words, viscous thoughts
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. -Henry Brooks Adams, historian (1838-1918) Embed from Getty Images
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Lorraine Moller: Running
“For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I’m more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.” ~Lorraine Moller, Four-time New Zealand Olympian. Embed from Getty Images
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Ben Jonson: Language
“Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. ” ~Ben Jonson Embed from Getty Images
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Noel Carroll: Running
“Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.” ~Noel Carroll, Irish middle distance runner.
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Flannery O'Connor: Failures and successes
“It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. ” ~Flannery O’Connor Embed from Getty Images
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Nicolo Machiavelli: Three kinds of intelligence
“There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first is excellent, the second good, and the third useless. ” ~Nicolo Machiavelli.
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Robert A. Heinlein: Truism
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” -Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988)
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Andrew Masondo: Differences and commonalities
“Understand the differences; act on the commonalities.” ~Andrew Masondo.
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Benjamin Franklin: Trade
“No nation was ever ruined by trade.” ~Benjamin Franklin. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/92180857
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Joseph Heller: Destiny
“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.” ~Joseph Heller.
