W S Gilbert Famous Quotes
"When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody."
"Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream."
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance."
"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast."
W S Gilbert Quotations
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still
J Paul Getty
"If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."
Zig Ziglar
"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."
Alexander Pope
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations'"
Lewis Carroll
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
"If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
David Bissonette