The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
—Peter McWilliams (American Author)
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
—E. W. Howe (American Novelist)
A fault is sooner found than mended.
—Ulpian Fulwell (English Playwright, Satirist)
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded
—Tyne Daly (American Actress, Singer)
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (American Novelist)
The future is always a fairy land to the young.
—George Augustus Henry Sala (British Journalist)
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)
When he that speaks, and he to whom he speaks, neither of them understand what is meant, that is metaphysics.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher, Author)
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
—Thomas Gray (English Poet)
The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe (Tibetan Buddhist Teacher)
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
—George William Curtis (American Essayist)
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
—Vaclav Hlavaty (Czech Mathematician, Physicist)
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
—John Churton Collins (English Literary Critic)
Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.
—Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Indian Philosopher, Political Leader)