Showing posts with label Marcel Proust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marcel Proust. Show all posts

Friday, July 31, 2009

Quotes

"All right everyone, line up alphabetically
according to your height."
- Casey Stengel


Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-
minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
- Evan Esar


The one thing more difficult than following
a regimen is not imposing it on others.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

A little rebellion now
and then is a good thing.
- Thomas Jefferson


"Everything comes to him
who hustles while he waits."
- Thomas Edison

"Procrastination isn't the problem,
it's the solution. So procrastinate
now, don't put it off."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Friday, April 03, 2009

Quotes

"I'm kidding about having only a few dollars.
I might have a few dollars more."
- James Brown

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust

"It is a matter of shame that
in the morning the birds should
be awake earlier than you."
- Abu Bakr

"Part of being sane, is
being a little bit crazy."
- Janet Long

"A true conservationist is a man who knows
that the world is not given by his fathers,
but borrowed from his children."
- John James Audubon

"Wisdom begins in wonder."
- Socrates

Monday, October 20, 2008

Quotes - Oneliner

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- Elbert Hubbard

It's always darkest before it goes pitch black.
- Connie Winkler

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical."
- Yogi Berra

The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
- Pietro Mascagni