“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
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Wise Quotes — page 36 of 916
“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”
“When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.”
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
“The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.”
“Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.”
“Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.”
“The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.”
“In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.”
“The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.”
“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.”
“Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.”
“When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.”
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
“I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.”
“He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.”
“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.”
“Accounting is the language of business.”
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”