Quotes
Quotes about End
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Never lend booksânobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
Man's life does not commence in the womb and never ends in the grave.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Luck never gives; it only lends.
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
