Ron Pratt > Ron's Quotes

“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I was reading.”
― Ghandi

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
― Seneca

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Often you cannot wait for inspiration—it needs to be sought out.”
― Dean F. Wilson

“Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol