His Quotes
- Page 39Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
Charles Lyell
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt
Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.
Ricky Martin
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
Bo Bennett
I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.
George W. Bush
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford
Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
Camille Claudel
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
Honore de Balzac
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
David Herbert Lawrence
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Aldous Huxley
The fact that 'True Blood' affects people in this way is incredible to me - the fact we have to go to such great lengths to hide storylines just proves the cache our show has.
Ryan Kwanten
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
David Herbert Lawrence
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.
Christina Aguilera