Arnold Bennett Famous Quotes
"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."
"Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened."
"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."
The moment you're born you're done for.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
"'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'"
"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."
"Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others."
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
Arnold Bennett Quotations
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
Peter Ustinov
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
Richard Willard Armour
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Louis de SaintJust
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
Jules Renard
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
Epicurus
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
Larry Niven
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
"This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again."
Maitri Upanishads