Fortune Quote

Saturday, June 30, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

... 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"

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

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

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