Fortune Quote #2159

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Fortune Quote #2158

"Take a lesson from the whale: the only time he gets speared is when he
raises to spout."

Fortune Quote #2157

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of
things. -- T.S. Eliot, "The Family Reunion"

Fortune Quote #2156

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the
truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Fortune Quote #2155

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest
she should catch a cold on overexposure. -- Samuel Butler

Fortune Quote #2154

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have
mediocrity thrust upon them. -- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"

Fortune Quote #2153

... relaxed in the manner of a man who has no need to put up a front of
any kind. -- John Ball, "Mark One: the Dummy"

Fortune Quote #2152

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their
minds cannot change anything. -- G.B. Shaw

Fortune Quote #2151

Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their
thinking. -- Mary Poppins

Fortune Quote #2150

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that
Benjamin Franklin said it first. -- Benjamin Franklin

Fortune Quote #2149

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have
been left out on the pleasure. -- Russell Baker

Fortune Quote #2148

"People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of
the future."

Fortune Quote #2147

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent
plausible. -- The Best of Will Rogers

Fortune Quote #2146

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right
to use the editorial "we". -- Mark Twain

Fortune Quote #2145

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the
knowledge that one can communicate it. -- Joyce Carol Oates

Fortune Quote #2144

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can
discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
-- Clifton Fadiman

Fortune Quote #2143

One is often kept in the right road by a rut. -- Gustave Droz

Fortune Quote #2142

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
-- Chateaubriand (1768-1848)

Fortune Quote #2141

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly
possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of
thought, a rivalry of aim. -- Henry Brook Adams

Fortune Quote #2140

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-- Helen Keller

Fortune Quote #2139

Objects are lost only because people look where they are not rather than
where they are.

Fortune Quote #2138

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor
Roosevelt

Fortune Quote #2137

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others... we are
indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. --
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fortune Quote #2136

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated
attacks, however false. -- Alexander Hamilton

Fortune Quote #2135

Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice. -- Foghorn
Leghorn

Fortune Quote #2134

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that
subject. -- Charles-Maurice De Talleyrand

Fortune Quote #2133

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning. --
Marlo Thomas

Fortune Quote #2132

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will never
believe you anyway. -- Elbert Hubbard

Fortune Quote #2131

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln

Fortune Quote #2130

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say.
And then say it with the utmost levity. -- G.B. Shaw