If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
—David Ogilvy (British Advertising Executive)
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Essayist)
There will always be about the same percentage of people capable of real love, and there will always be about the same percentage of people who aren’t.
—John Galsworthy (English Novelist, Playwright)
Civilization is what makes you sick.
—Paul Gauguin (French Painter)
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
—Will Rogers (American Humorist, Actor)
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature—that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Historian, Essayist)
The thing that eats the heart is mostly the heart.
—Stanley Kunitz (American Poet)
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
—Austin O’Malley (American Aphorist, Ophthalmologist)
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
—Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (American Business Executive)
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
—Milan Kundera (Czech Novelist)