Showing posts with label age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label age. Show all posts

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Health, Humor, Academia, Age Quotations

HEALTH
Seneca
It is a part of the cure to wish to be cured.

HUMOR
Jean Paul Richter
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

ACADEMIA
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education.

AGE
Leo Rosenberg
First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Writing, Wealth, Go For It, Age Quotations

WRITING
Dorothy Parker
If you’re going to write, don’t pretend to write down. It’s going to be the best thing you can do, and it’s the fact that it’s the best you can do that kills you.

WEALTH
John Wicker
Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

GO FOR IT
Jonathan Winters
I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

AGE
Oscar Wilde
To get back one’s youth, one merely has to repeat one’s follies.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Writing, Government, Degradation, Age Quotes

WRITING
William Somerset Maugham
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

GOVERNMENT
Sheldon Richman
The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

DEGRADATION
Marvin Lee Minsky
Too much suffering diminishes us by restricting the complexities that constitute our very selves. It must be the same for pleasure as well.

AGE
Cesare Pavese
Every man over thirty identifies his youth with the worst fault he thinks he has discovered in himself.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Knowledge, Work, Leadership, Age

KNOWLEDGE
Henry Louis Mencken
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

WORK
Jeff MacNelly
A career is a job that has gone on too long.

LEADERSHIP
John C. Maxwell
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

AGE
Madeleine L’Engle
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Time, Capitalism, Advice, Age

TIME

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach us much the days never knew.

CAPITALISM

Irving Fisher
Man is the most versatile of all forms of capital.

ADVICE

Marquis de La Grange
When we advise we are usually looking for an accomplice.

AGE

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.