Hesketh Pearson Famous Quotes
"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson Quotations
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
Samuel C Florman
There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
Anatole France
One hand washes the other.
Seneca
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle
"The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them."
James Oliver
"O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know."
William Cowper
Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."
Aristotle
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
Wystan Hugh Auden
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Cicero