It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 06:48 sati.