598 Followers 818 FollowingMuch misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
600 Followers 693 FollowingBut to my mind, though I am native here brAnd to the manner born, it is a custom brMore honoured in the breach than the observance.
600 Followers 695 FollowingNor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.
591 Followers 659 FollowingThe death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
576 Followers 751 FollowingMy grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
605 Followers 691 FollowingI can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure try to please everybody all the time.
593 Followers 782 FollowingI bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel.
607 Followers 968 FollowingОдна из схоластических загадок: «Может ли Бог создать такой камень, который сам не в силах поднять»? Такой камень есть – это наш мир.
583 Followers 505 FollowingI am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
635 Followers 505 FollowingIn politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
601 Followers 765 FollowingSocial confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
588 Followers 771 FollowingNeither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
577 Followers 662 FollowingHuman kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
608 Followers 756 FollowingMan is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
602 Followers 775 FollowingIn reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
591 Followers 501 FollowingFew men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.