Earl Wilson Famous Quotes
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
Earl Wilson Quotations
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."
Alexander Hamilton
"He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign."
Victor Hugo
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
Anon
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
Laurence J Peter
Those who hear not the music. . . think the dancers mad.
Unknown
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."
George Eliot
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost
"I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve."
William Shakespeare
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy