Quotes For You

  Drive thy business or it will drive thee. - Benjamin Franklin Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller A dinner lubricates business. - Lord William Stowell There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. - David Letterman No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. - Thorstein Veblen My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892 In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. - Warren Buffett I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. - G. K. Chesterton Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F....

  Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - G. K. Chesterton Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. - Tallulah Bankhead You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. - Oscar Wilde To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. - Peter Ustinov They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Sir Francis Bacon I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. - John D. Rockefeller Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. - Samuel Goldwyn READ M...

  Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. - Henry David Thoreau Take what you can use and let the rest go by. - Ken Kesey The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14 READ MORE

  Photo: Mike / Pexels Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. - John Lithgow A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. - Tallulah Bankhead You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - e e cummings The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G. K. Chesterton Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -  Mark Twain To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. - Thomas Moore READ MORE NICE

  Image by Grok The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything. - John Irving I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. - Duke Ellington To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. - Confucius If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act 2 If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961 To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton Vote early and vote often. - Al...

  Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. --Carl Sandburg Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. --Sir Winston Churchill You must lose a fly to catch a trout. --George Herbert It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. --Agnes Repplier Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. --Arthur Miller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. --Frank Zappa Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. --G. K. Chesterton Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. --Martin Luther King Jr. An idea is salvation by imagination. --Frank Lloyd Wright READ MORE

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.. -  Charlie Chaplin Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Life is like playi...

Willa Cather. Photo: Britannica.com No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. - Willa Cather Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. - John Maynard Keynes Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. - G. K. Chesterton If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. - Mother Teresa You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. - Cicero The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner

Goethe. Photo: Wikipedia We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. - Grenville Kleiser The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. - Wilfred A. Peterson Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. - Phil Jackson Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. - George Washington Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. - G. K. Chesterton The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. -...

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.  - Oscar Wilde  As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. -  Leonardo da Vinci  Man is what he believes.  - Anton Chekhov  True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.  - William Penn   A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.  - G. K. Chesterton  A room without books is like a body without a soul.  - Cicero  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.   - Groucho Marx  Woe be to him that reads but one book.  - George Herbert  Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.  - Evan Esar Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.  - Ot...

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.  - G. K. Chesterton 

Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.  - G. K. Chesterton

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.  - G. K. Chesterton