Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Famous Quotes
"Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas."
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Quotations
"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."
Jose Ortega y Gasset
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does."
Caleb Carr
"When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time."
Max McGee
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
"How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved."
George Bernard Shaw
"There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try."
Henry Bromel