Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

308 Publisher Quotes

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Good Money Check
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

Friends World Enemies
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Easy Hard Impossible
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.

Salesman Selling Satisfy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

Same Year Eating Quail
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

Solution Energy Nature
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested. You Never Money

Consider Hard Word
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Men Dead Hang Right
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

Listening Fellow Talk
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

World Bright Men Say
  Favorite Make wallpaper
A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
Tacful Man Cut Bee
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Body Present Tremendous Stimulation
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Fellow Twice Failure Dozen
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
Principles Fashioned Noble Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Know Club Meat-ax Fellow
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

Dealings Remember Opportunity Tomorrow
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

College Student Educating Eliminate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

College Fools Develop
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Fortune Calling Leaves
  Favorite Make wallpaper

ThereÂ’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that heÂ’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

Cure Foolishness Man Leave
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Appearance Deceitful Deceive
  Favorite Make wallpaper
When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
Tongue Lies Truth
  Favorite Make wallpaper
But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.
People Think Young
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

Man Company Early Late
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Man Fellow Money
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
Great Secret Management Earger
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Might Reality Men Absolutely
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

Vast Carload Facts Sloshing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

How you package your life is how people will see and take you.

You Package Life People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Purge yourself of hate. I'm not just a journalist but an African Leader. If that gets you angry, live with that FACT!

Hate African Angry Journalist
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Even in Europe and the US, you encounter dead spots!

Europe US Dead Spots
  Favorite Make wallpaper
“Comments are free but facts are sacred''
Comments Free Facts Sacred
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Literature Most Agreeable Ignoring
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it

No-intelligent Idea General Acceptance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My past is everything I failed to be.

Past Failed Be
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Ships Sailing Many Ports
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

Woken Early Time Ready
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

Never Love Anyone Idea
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

Rejected Understood Prostitute Prefer
  Favorite Make wallpaper
In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
In order Understand Destroyed Myself
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

Nothing Something Want Dream
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
Life Came Found Reality
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Bear Wounds Battle Avoided
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Value Things Last Intensity
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.
Never Done Dream Meaning
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Worship Perfection Because Reject
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Opinion Sell Yourself Exist
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Die People Write Biography
  Favorite Make wallpaper
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
Know Yourself Badly Think
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

My-longing Whom Might Distracts
  Favorite Make wallpaper