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We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men ‘after our own heart.’ Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of ‘the bretheren’ and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who ‘don’t understand,’ of the ‘conventional,’ the ‘bourgeois,’ the ‘Establishment,’ of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Find me a man who’s interesting enough to have dinner with and I’ll be happy.
Lauren Bacall1924–2014
- Men
Many things⁠—such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly⁠—are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Address on Courage (1965)
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Preface to Paradise Lost
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Order of the Day (2 June 1944), a message to troops before the Normandy landings, reported in Franklin Watts, Voices of History (1945), p. 260
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates470–399 BC
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain1835–1910
You do what you are…You’re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you’re good at. you don’t take for granted.
Morgan Freemanborn 1937Along Came a Spider
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington1732–1799
Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.
Karl Marx1818–1883
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519
The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Oscar Levant1906–1972Often credited to Dorothy Parker