Quotes
Quotes about Wit
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.
Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".
Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity. Peter Ferdinand Drucker -Harold J. Seymour.
A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. -Unkown.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.
To the devil with those who published before us. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
