Eleanor Hamilton Famous Quotes
"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver."
Eleanor Hamilton Quotations
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
Aldous Huxley
"Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
"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
"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them."
Homer
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
George Bernard Shaw
"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers."
Leo C Rosten
"The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless."
Dorothy L Sayers
"Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family."
Jewish Proverb