Thomas Arnold Bennett Famous Quotes
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."
"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive."
Thomas Arnold Bennett Quotations
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself."
Georg W Hegel
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
Jewish Proverb
"Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is."
Sir William Draper
"If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee."
Anne Bradstreet
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W Somerset Maugham
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."
William Adams
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."
William Saroyan
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln