Quotes by Authors - Page 201

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Peter F Drucker
He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith
He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.
James Morris
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.
Rebecca West
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Henry S. Haskins
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.
Buckminster Fuller
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.
Ordway Tead
If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.
Walter Colton
No great advance has ever been made in science politics or religion without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
Shoemaker stick to your last.
Pliny
The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.
Edward Noyes Westcott
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
Mark Twain
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
Michael Frayn
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Samuel Butler
Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.
Anonymous
How grand is victory but how dear!
Anonymous
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct not by their professions.
Junius
When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth bases loaded no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.
Tug McGraw
Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
Tyron Edwards
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Lord Chesterfield
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.
André Maurois
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises loud talk music you name it.
Sylvia Porter
Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
W.H. Auden
When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.
Lord Chesterfield
While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.
Franklin P. Adams
Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them and are energetic persevering and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.
Walter J. Johnston
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Søren Kierkegaard
All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing not scattered abroad upon a thousand.
Stephen McKenna
Successful minds work like a gimlet to a single point.
Christian Bovee
I like to laugh but on the court it is my work. I try to smile but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball not on my face.
Steffi Graf
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
G.K. Chesterton
Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
Arnold Palmer
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.
Isaac Asimov
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
Charles C. Grevvile
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is in fact a subtle detraction.
Henry David Thoreau
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
Anonymous
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
Jonathan Swift
Comparisons are odious.
Archbishop Boiardo
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident and the most wonderful of all things in life.
Hugh Walpole
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Edgar Watson Howe
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
Anonymous
Americans who make more of marrying for love than any other people also break up more of their marriages but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
Morton Hunt
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Gloria Steinem
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.
Woody Allen
Whenever you want to marry someone go have lunch with his ex-wife.
Shelley Winters
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.
Caroline Rhea
Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Rita Rudner
We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift
Men love because they are afraid of themselves afraid of the loneliness that lives in them and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.
V. F. Calverton