Quotations about Being Fit for Life
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Below are a selection of quotations - not knowing this inside information may be a drawback in the art of living.
"The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home." [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)]
Business is commonplace; so is living itself, an effect of the "Eden crime". What
do you think of that?
Contents
Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:Finance
There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. [Louis D. Brandeis]A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination. [Arthur Wing Pinero]
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a
judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. [Finley Peter Dunne]
Hate
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. [Archibald MacLeish]National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
[Buddha]
Jealousy
Jealousy is the injured lover's hell. [John Milton]What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes. [John Gay]
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster. [William
Shakespeare]
Law
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. [Otto von Bismarck]If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. [Charles Dickens]
How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! - Anatole France]
A jury [in America very often] consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. [Robert Frost]
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. [Earl
Warren]
Leadership
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. [Dwight D. Eisenhower]
To lead the people, walk behind them. [Lao-Tzu]
Misery
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. [Oliver Wendell Holmes]Neglect
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. [Samuel Johnson]Perfection
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. [Saint Augustine]
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most
excellent. [Epictetus]
Perseverance
Many make way for the man who boldly pushes past us to his grief, maybe loss. [Cf. Christian Nestell Bovee]
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. [Edmund Burke]
Punctuality
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. [Don Marquis]Purpose
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. [Benjamin Disraeli]
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. [Washington Irving]
Quotation
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. [Orson Welles]
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. [Ralph Waldo
Emerson]
Rights
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. [Mark Twain]I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. [Robert Green Ingersoll]
The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. [Hubert H.
Humphrey]
Risk
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. [William Lloyd George]
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one
must not expect to obtain the other. [Metastasio]
Scientific
Mediocrities . . . cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert EinsteinOur perceiving self is nowhere to be found within the world-picture, because it is itself the world-picture. - Erwin Schrödinger
Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind. - Erwin
Schrödinger
Union
The labor movement's basic purpose is to achieve a better life for its members. A union that fails in this purpose has failed utterly. [New York Times]Wage
Low wages are not cheap wages. [Louis D. Brandeis]
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. [Edwin H. Stuart]
Waste
Willful waste brings woeful want. [Thomas Fuller]
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
[Orison S. Marden]
Wealth
He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him. [Benjamin Franklin]Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. [Andrew Carnegie]
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. [John Fitzgerald Kennedy]
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. [Socrates]
Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it. [William Penn Patrick]
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
[La Rochefoucauld]
Work
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. [Bertie Charles Forbes]
I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. [Jerome K.
Jerome]
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