Quotes - George (Whittier, CA) Showing 1-27 of 27

#1

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

4879 likes

#2

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
― Woody Allen

tags: success

937 likes

#3

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: john-galt

1786 likes

#4

“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order

tags: misattributed-milton-friedman, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, tanstaafl, tanstafl

558 likes

#5

“Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

tags: arrogance, honesty, humility

123 likes

#6

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148358 likes

#7

“Impatience makes fools of clever men...”
― R. A. Scotti

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#8

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

4327 likes

#9

“The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.”
― Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs

12 likes

#10

“Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City

tags: bigotry, cosmopolitanism, free-trade, openmindedness

10 likes

#11

“There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.”
― William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man

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#12

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: age, humor, old, wisdom

2176 likes

#13

“I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
― Joanne Harris

tags: chocolat, happiness, joanne-harris

63 likes

#14

“You can't make footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to make buttprints in the sands of time?”
― Bob Moawad

108 likes

#15

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
― Scott Hamilton

64 likes

#16

“The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work.”
― Philippe Petit, Cheating the Impossible: Ideas and Recipes from a Rebellious High-Wire Artist

4 likes

#17

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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#18

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23766 likes

#19

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: books

3245 likes

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