There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry James , British (US -born) author (1843 – 1916)
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Great short quote and quotation by: Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) “Life and Human Nature” , (1865 – 1946)
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist. […]
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. Great short quote and quotation by: George Eliot , English novelist (1819 – 1880)
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There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. Great short quote and quotation by: Arthur Honegger , French composer (1892 – 1955)
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. Great short quote and quotation by: Adela Rogers St. Johns ,
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing […]
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park […]
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Ho Chi Minh, When asked how Vietnam could possibly wage war against the West.
They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first. Great short quote and quotation by: Ho Chi Minh, When asked how Vietnam could possibly wage war against the West. ,
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. Great short quote and quotation by: Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938) , (1903 – 1974)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3 , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – […]
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