Quotations from Everywhere

(Part Fourteen)

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

When death overtakes us all that we have is left to others all that we are we take with us.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except when.

A good husband makes a good wife.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

What you are will show in what you do.

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

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