Category: writer
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
H. P. Lovecraft
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That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.
Michelle Obama
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A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
John C. Maxwell