Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other.
When one takes a rest,
the other one tends to take up the slack.
—Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott (American Author)
The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya (Spanish Artist)
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
—James Truslow Adams (American Historian)
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
—Eliza Cook (English Poet)
Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.
—Roger Babson (American Economist)
Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk, at least, before they dance.
—Alexander Pope (English Poet)
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it.—But argument is like an arrow from a cross bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.
—Robert Boyle (Irish Scientist, Philosopher)
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
—J. Harold Wilkins (American Businessman)
My clearest recollection of a long-ago interview with Thomas A. Edison is of a single sentence that was painted and hung on a wall in his room. In effect, the sentence was, “It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.” That is tragically true. Some of think, more of us think we think, and most of us don’t even think of thinking. The result is a somewhat cockeyed world.
—Channing Pollock (American Playwright, Critic)
Finance would be better if it was taught by the psychology and history departments at universities.
—Morgan Housel (American Financial Journalist, Investor)
Be the master of your will, and the slave of your conscience.
—Yiddish Proverb
Life is not so important as the duties of life.
—John Randolph (American Politician)