Category: Quotations

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.Henry David Thoreau

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done.Cullen Hightower

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone.  The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Everybody sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.Robert Louis Stevenson

One could say that I had a happy childhood, although I showed little talent for being happy.Samuel Beckett

The ego is a self-justifying historian, which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.Anthony G. Greenwald