Peter Quennell Famous Quotes
"However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time."
Peter Quennell Quotations
"We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable."
George Dennison Prentice
"Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."
Ambrose Bierce
"Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control."
Democritus
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
Wystan Hugh Auden
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . ."
Isaac Asimov
"Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity."
Vince Lombardi
"To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is."
Peter Nivio Zarlenga