John Erskine Famous Quotes
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine Quotations
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson
"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."
Simone Weil
"If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry."
African Proverb
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward De Bono
"Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible."
Mao Zedong
"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.
Robinson Jeffers
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H L Mencken
It is better to understand little than to understand a lot.
Anatole France