Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. |
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt. Topics: Business |
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. |
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. |
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. |
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. |
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. |
The cliche is dead poetry. |
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. |
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. |
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. |
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. |
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. |
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. Topics: Marriage |