The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. -Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. -Oscar Wilde
Category: Quotes of the day
Rose Dorothy Freeman
“Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.” Rose Dorothy Freeman quotes
A good scare is worth more than good advice. -Horace
A good scare is worth more than good advice. -Horace
Alfred Mercier
What we learn with pleasure we never forget. Alfred Mercier quotes
Vladimir Mayakovsky
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk –handsome, twenty-two year …
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts …
Henry Brooks Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. Henry Brooks Adams quotes
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. -Helen Keller
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. -Helen Keller
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr. Joyce Brothers
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr. Joyce Brothers
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. -David Lloyd George
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. -David Lloyd George
Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass. -Paul Santaguida
Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass. -Paul Santaguida
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -Desiderius Erasmus
Philip Streifer
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the …
Hank Aaron
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Hank Aaron quotes
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -Abraham Lincoln
The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try. -Peter F. Drucker
The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try. -Peter F. Drucker
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain? -Clare Boothe Luce
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain? -Clare Boothe Luce
Nothing will work unless you do. -John Wooden
Nothing will work unless you do. -John Wooden
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. -Jonathan Westover
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. -Jonathan Westover
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." – Albert Einstein
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” – Albert Einstein
You can lead a whore to culture but you can’t make her think. -Dorothy Parker
You can lead a whore to culture but you can’t make her think. -Dorothy Parker
Sir Edmund Hillary
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary quotes
Douglas Hurd
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. Douglas Hurd quotes
Titus Livy
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. Titus Livy quotes
David D. Burns
It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit …
Richard Brautigan
If you get hung up on everybody else’s hang-ups, then the whole world’s going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. Richard Brautigan quotes
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. -Mark Twain
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. -Mark Twain
Home is where there’s one to love us. -Charles Swain
Home is where there’s one to love us. -Charles Swain
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. -Joseph Joubert
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. -Joseph Joubert
"I can speak French but I cannot understand it." – Mark Twain
“I can speak French but I cannot understand it.” – Mark Twain
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. -Marcel Proust
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. -Marcel Proust
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. -Victor Hugo
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. -Victor Hugo
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. -Julio Cortazar
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. -Julio Cortazar
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -Aristotle
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. -Mark Twain
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. -Mark Twain
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. -Sallust
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. -Sallust
The wise does at once what the fool does at last. -Baltasar Gracian
The wise does at once what the fool does at last. -Baltasar Gracian
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. -Thomas Fuller
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. -Thomas Fuller
Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand. -Edward Everett Hale
Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand. -Edward Everett Hale
Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid. -Basil King
Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid. -Basil King