Gene Brown Famous Quotes
Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
Gene Brown Quotations
"Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)"
Irving Layton
Possession is eleven points in the law.
Colley Cibber
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."
Laertius Diogenes
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
Thomas Pickering
"Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions."
Stephen Leacock
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning."
John Henry Newman
"The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning."
Nathan M Pusey