Quotes 821 till 837 of 837.
-
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
-
You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
-
A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
-
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
-
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
-
Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
-
Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
Source: Animal Dreams -
His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
-
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
-
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
-
I start where the last man left off.
-
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
-
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
-
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
-
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
-
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
Source: Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James Meller― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
All hands-off famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 42)
