Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. - C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis Quotes
C. S. Lewis Quotes
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. - C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis Quotes
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis Quotes
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis Quotes
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis Quotes
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis Quotes
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis
H. G. Wells Quotes
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. - H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells Quotes
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. - H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells Quotes
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells Quotes
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. - H. G. Wells
Janis Joplin Quotes
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. - Janis Joplin
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. - John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John D. Rockefeller
Michael Palin Quotes
I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. - Michael Palin
Michael Palin Quotes
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. - Michael Palin
Michael Palin Quotes
I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person. - Michael Palin
Michael Palin Quotes
People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. - Michael Palin
Michael Palin Quotes
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle. - Michael Palin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. - Benjamin Franklin
Al Capp Quotes
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp
Al Capp Quotes
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. - Al Capp
Al Capp Quotes
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. - Al Capp
Al Capp Quotes
Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. - Al Capp
William Wordsworth Quotes
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. - William Wordsworth
Joseph Heller Quotes
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals. - Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller Quotes
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. - Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller Quotes
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy. - Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller Quotes
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. - Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller Quotes
I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any. - Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller Quotes
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller
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