Chinua Achebe Famous Quotes
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them."
Chinua Achebe Quotations
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
Novalis
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Charles De Gaulle
"To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME."
Anon
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford
"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most."
Thucyclides
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
"Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house."
Jewish Proverb
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
Henry Brougham