45 quotes found
Author · English · 1867–1931
English author (1867–1931)
“The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.”
“It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.”
“A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.”
“We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something ...”
“If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.”
“The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.”
“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.”
“Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
“No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.”
“We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something us...”
“Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being d...”
“The price of justice is eternal publicity.”
“A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.”
“Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.”
“Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.”