Showing posts with label Don Marquis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don Marquis. Show all posts

Friday, July 03, 2009

Quotaria

You can tell more about a person by
what he says about others than you
can by what others say about him.
- Leo Aikman

People of mediocre ability sometimes
achieve outstanding success because
they don't know when to quit. Most men
succeed because they are determined to.
- George Allen


There are many persons ready to do what is right because
in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate,
waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first
move -- and he, in turn, waits for you.
- Marian Anderson


The future is disorder. A door like this has cracked open five or six
times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time
to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
- Arcadia


We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence, then, is
not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

"Pity the meek, for they
shall inherit the earth."
- Don Marquis

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Quotaria

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think,
every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every
day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley

It seems like once people grow up,
they have no idea what's cool.
- Bill Watterson

"Play: Work that you enjoy
doing for nothing."
- Evan Esar


"If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you; But if you really make
them think, they'll hate you."
- Don Marquis

"We learn something every day,
and lots of times it's that what
we learned the day before was wrong."
- Bill Vaughan


"Politics is the skilled
use of blunt objects."
- Lester B. Pearson

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Quotes

"Don't let the
fear of striking
out hold you back."
- Babe Ruth


"Always remember that you are absolutely
unique. Just like everyone else."
- Margaret Mead


"Procrastination is the art of
keeping up with yesterday."
- Don Marquis


"Every journalist has a novel in him,
which is an excellent place for it."
- Russel Lynes

"What I like to drink most is
wine that belongs to others."
- Diogenes

"There's only one thing money
won't buy, and that is poverty."
- Joe E. Lewis

Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotaria

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly
perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings?
Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
- Paul Gauguin

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are
dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
- James Russell Lowell

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because
out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
- Leon Trotsky

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy
of being called an idea at all.
- Don Marquis

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of
a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
- Eric Hoffer

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay
waste the sky as well as the earth!
- Henry David Thoreau