Quotes 2581 till 2595 of 2595.
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Ignoramus: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
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My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Telephone. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
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