Showing posts with label Franklin P. Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Franklin P. Jones. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Quotes

"Nothing changes your opinion of a friend
so surely as success - yours or his."
- Franklin P. Jones

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I
think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health
are three requirements for happiness, though
if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
- Gustave Flaubert

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


The world is round; it has no point.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff

"It is not to be expected that
human nature will change in a day."
- Frank B. Kellogg

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotaria

"He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar
would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
- Rudyard Kipling

"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who
does superlatively and without obvious effort
something that most people cannot do by the
uttermost exertion of their abilities."
- Robertson Davies

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables
you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- Franklin P. Jones


"I have learned to use the word 'impossible'
with the greatest caution."
- Wernher von Braun


"Try to leave the Earth a better
place than when you arrived."
- Sidney Sheldon

"Life must be understood backwards;
but... it must be lived forward."
- Soren Kierkegaard