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A lot of places can be the wrong place at the wrong time.
Bill Clintonborn 1946
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley1889–1945
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Matsushita Konosuke1894–1989Often credited to Mae West
The healthy man does not torture others⁠—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung1875–1961In Du, May 1941
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Speech at Guildhall, London (12 June 1945)
Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung1875–1961Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848Curiosities of Literature, Poverty of the Learned
- Genius
- Luck
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915“Democracy and Education”, address at the Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York (30 September 1896)
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Luck
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers1879–1935
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859National Character of Americans—first impressions (1831) Oeuvres complètes, vol. VIII, p. 233.
- America
- Change
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
James A. Michener1907–1997
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Insulted and the Injured (1861), Part III, Chapter 2 (tr. Constance Garnett, 1915)