Edwin Percy Whipple Famous Quotes
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Edwin Percy Whipple Quotations
"What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard."
Clive Staples Lewis
"As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life."
Benjamin Disraeli
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.
Seymour Britchky
"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
Jane Austen
He who receives a benefit should never forget it he who bestow should never remember it.
Pierre Charron
The Joker Wait'll they get a load of ME
Batman
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
Johann von Goethe
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."
Miguel de Cervantes