Will Quotes
- Page 40The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope