Quotes by Authors - Page 215

Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
Henry David Thoreau
Don't fight forces use them.
Buckminster Fuller
Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield
There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.
Anonymous
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
Mark Twain
The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith
The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz
Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
George Norman Douglas
When business is good it pays to advertise when business is bad you've got to advertise.
Anonymous
The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife.
David Ogilvy
If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Jerry Delia Femina
The number of agency people required to shoot a commercial on location is in direct proportion to the mean temperature of the location.
Shelby Page
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
William Feather
The best ad is a good product.
Alan H. Meyer
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
If it doesn't sell it isn't creative.
David Ogilvy
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Walter Colton
Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.
Mary Baker Eddy
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Anonymous
He who serves God with what costs him nothing will do very little service you may depend on it.
Susan Warner
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.
Anonymous
Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
Catharine Marshall
Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters
Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems or keep repeating them over and over.
Marie Osmond
Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
Anonymous
It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
Edward Howard Griggs
By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Madame Swetchine
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Christy Mathewson
Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.
Anonymous
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline the sensations but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly to try to understand things.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Who hath not known ill fortune never knew himself or his own virtue.
David Mallett
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.
Rose Chernin
I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.
Helen Keller
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.
Lea Thompson
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Margot Asquith
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
Josiah G. Holland
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
Lou Holtz
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship this pressure produces diamonds.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.
Marge Piercy
Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.
William Feather
It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
Mildred W. Struven
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
Anonymous
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Richardson
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble and you'll probably make it through the next one.
Ruth Gordon
I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring they usually last a considerable time.
L. E. Landon
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
Gail Sheehy
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
Victor Hugo