William Lyon Phelps Famous Quotes
"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money."
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world."
This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
William Lyon Phelps Quotations
"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."
French Proverb
"Give me a museum, and I'll fill it."
Pablo Picasso
"Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great."
John L Motley
"We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do."
Josh Billings
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."
Alexander Hamilton
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."
Mark Twain
"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."
Goldie Hawn
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
Robert Graves
"First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily."
William Hazlitt