QUOTES CLXXXI

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Author Unknown

 

A man's age can be measured by the degree of pain he feels on coming into contact with a new idea.

Author Unknown

 

Every good quality runs into a deficit: economy borders on avarice; the generous are not far from the prodigal; the brave man is close to the bully; he who says very pious says slightly sanctimonious.

Victor Hugo

 

I don't know which books profit me most - those that keep me awake at night or those that send me to sleep.

Benjamin Disraeli

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

 

When angry, count to ten; when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain 

 

There is a sense of loss, actually.

Dr. Andrew Wiles, mathematician who presented first proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

 

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

Henry Ford

 

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Andy Warhol