Cyril Northcote Parkinson Famous Quotes
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson Quotations
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."
Vincent Van Gogh
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Susan Jeffers
"Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor."
Laurence J Peter
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Abundance, like want, ruins many."
Romanian Proverb
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato