Quotes by Authors - Page 108

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
John Morley
You are all you will ever have for certain .
June Havoc
A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
Mark Twain
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
Progress - the stride of God!
Victor Hugo
Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.
Anonymous
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Bill Vaughan
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
J.G. Holland
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.
James Thurber
Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.
Anonymous
Now here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Lewis Carroll
The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono
The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Henry A. Wallace
The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
New roads new ruts.
G.K. Chesterton
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get except the blinding headaches.
Fred Allen
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.
Carrie Snow
Before I started working here I drank smoked and used bad language. Thanks to this job I now have good reason.
Anonymous
When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."
Melvin Helitzer
If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?
Calvin Trillin
I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!
Anonymous
A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.
Anonymous
She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.
Fred Allen
Few great men could pass personnel.
Paul Goodman
Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
Anonymous
A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.
Anonymous
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Lyndon Johnson
Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
Bert Sugar
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead Spenser is dead so is Milton so is Shakespeare and I'm not feeling so well myself.
Mark Twain
I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.
Wendy Liebman
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.
John Steinbeck
I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.
Anonymous
Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.
Anonymous
Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.
Anonymous
Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.
Anonymous
Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.
James Humes
My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.
Henny Youngman
Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.
Rita Rudner
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
L. Ron Hubbard
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties a creature whose function is to solve problems?
Gorham Munson
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.
Thomas Paine
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Ben Ames Williams
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
Barbara Ward
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
The best way out of a problem is through it.
Anonymous
There is no movement without our own resistance.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.
Paule Marshall