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Cut your losses!

Nabil Medawar — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:21:59 +0000

A hundred years cannot repair a moment’s loss of honor. ~ Traditional Proverb
Adversity and loss make a man wise. ~ Welsh Proverb
Caution minimizes loss. ~ Filipino Proverb
Cut your losses and let your profits run. ~ American Proverb
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~ Norman Cousins
Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~ Shakti Gawain
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. ~ Pat Riley
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. ~ Democritus
I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life. ~ Martin Short
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. ~ Marlo Thomas
Loaning money causes loss of memory. ~ French Proverb
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. ~ Hilaire Belloc
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~ Al Gore
One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach. ~ Knute Rockne
Profit is the brother of loss. ~ Turkish Proverb
Success is to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ~ Thomas Kempis
The loss of one night’s sleep is followed by ten days of inconvenience. ~ Chinese Proverb
There are only two things from which to choose: profit or loss. ~ Indian Proverb
There is never trust without loss. ~ Basque Proverb
To win you have to risk loss. ~ Jean Claude Killy
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. ~ James M. Barrie
Where profit is, loss is hiding nearby. ~ Japanese Proverb
You may light another’s candle at your own without loss. ~ Danish Proverb

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Profit Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:50:50 +0000

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. ~ John C. Maxwell
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
A person is born with a liking for profit. ~ Xun Zi
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit. ~ Nigerien Proverb
Biggest profits mean gravest risks. ~ Chinese Proverb
Civilization and profit go hand in hand. ~ Calvin Coolidge
Cut your losses and let your profits run. ~ American Proverb
If there is any profit in partnership, two will share a woman. ~ Tunisian Proverb
If you count all your assets you always show a profit. ~ Wilson Mizner
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. ~ Plutarch
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. ~ Harper Lee
Moderate profits fill the purse. ~ Italian Proverb
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. ~ Bernard Baruch
Poets wish to profit or to please. ~ Horace
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. ~ W. Edwards Deming
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. ~ Sophocles
Profit is the brother of loss. ~ Turkish Proverb
Small profits and often, are better than large profits and seldom. ~ German Proverb
Small profits are good if they come often. ~ French Proverb
Stealing may bring profit, but hanging costs far more. ~ Cambodian Proverb
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit. ~ Josh Billings
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. ~ Pliny the Elder
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit. ~ John Maynard Keynes
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth. ~ Warren Buffett
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it. ~ Honore de Balzac
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. ~ Dale Carnegie
There are only two things from which to choose: profit or loss. ~ Indian Proverb
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. ~ George Meredith
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ~ Wilson Mizner
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? ~ Robert Fulghum
When there are two in a lawsuit only a third will profit from it. ~ Chinese Proverb
Whenever there is profit to be made then think of honesty. ~ Chinese Proverb
Where profit is, loss is hiding nearby. ~ Japanese Proverb

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Wonder Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:17:53 +0000

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. ~ William Faulkner
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ~ Henry Miller
As each day goes by, you wonder where you’re going to go next. God always comes through – he always has in the past. ~ Kim Klardie
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ~ M. C. Escher
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. ~ Ray Bradbury
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ~ Mark Twain
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. ~ Neil Armstrong
No wonder lasts more than three days. ~ Italian Proverb
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night. ~ Margaret Mead
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy is the product of wonder. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. ~ Polykarp Kusch
Some men wonder over God’s values, others over the cut of a garment. ~ Afghan Proverb
Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ~ Albert Einstein
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. ~ Ronald Reagan
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders…It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. ~ Oscar Wilde
Wisdom begins in wonder. ~ Socrates
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. ~ Bishop Robert South
Wonder is involuntary praise. ~ Edward Young
Wonder is the basis of worship. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. ~ Plato
Worship is transcendent wonder. ~ Thomas Carlyle

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Pleasing Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:50:16 +0000

A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water. ~ Zen Proverb
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. ~ Francis Bacon
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ~ Samuel Johnson
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way – how many pleasing things are done for you. ~ Claude M. Bristol
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. ~ Marianne Moore
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. ~ Marcus V. Pollio
Don’t worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself. ~ David Brown
For we who live to please must please to live. ~ Samuel Johnson
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition. ~ James Nasmyth
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. ~ Lord Chesterfield
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased. ~ Samuel Johnson
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. ~ Michelangelo
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ~ Katharine Hepburn
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ~ Nicolas de Chamfort
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. ~ Blaise Pascal
I’ve done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ~ Jessamyn West
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it. ~ Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. ~ Ausonius
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ~ Horace
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing. ~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Power is the ability not to have to please. ~ Elizabeth Janeway
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. ~ William Hazlitt
The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. ~ French Proverb
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape. ~ William Shakespeare
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression. ~ Samuel Johnson
The one who pleased everybody died before they were born. ~ Traditional Proverb
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ~ John Ruskin
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. ~ Walter Scott
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. ~ Joseph Addison
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty. ~ Samuel Johnson
What is new is pleasing and what is old is satisfying. ~ Cuban Proverb
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine; it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ~ Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. ~ Samuel Johnson

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Reputation Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:53:58 +0000

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. ~ Jeff Bezos
A good reputation is better than a golden girdle. ~ Serbian Proverb
A good reputation is more valuable than money. ~ Publilius Syrus
A man’s judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. ~ Raymond Spruance
A man’s reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. ~ Joseph Addison
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment. ~ Ernest Bramah
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. ~ Joseph Hall
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. ~ Balthazar Gracian
All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation’s reputation. ~ Ramman Kenoun
Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Concealed talent brings no reputation. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. ~ Benjamin Franklin
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. ~ Petrarch
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money. ~ Josh Billings
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ~ Mencius
My reputation grows with every failure. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ~ Henry A. Kissinger
Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife. ~ John N. Mitchell
Of a dead leopard we keep the skin, of man his reputation. ~ Chinese Proverb
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. ~ Oscar Wilde
Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. ~ Rupert Murdoch
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. ~ Elizabeth Arden
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. ~ James Russell Lowell
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ~ St. Francis de Sales
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. ~ Thomas Paine
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial! ~ William Shakespeare
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. ~ Myrtle Reed
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. ~ Samuel Johnson
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. ~ French Proverb
The river’s reputation ends where the sea begins. ~ Russian Proverb
The soldiers’ blood, the general’s reputation. ~ Jamaican Proverb
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. ~ Samuel Butler
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. ~ Dag Hammarskjold
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect. ~ Bryant H. McGill
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we’d all like to buy it cheap. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the general’s reputation is enhanced. ~ Japanese Proverb
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.~ Jim Rohn
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. ~ Margaret Mitchell
Work is the price which is paid for reputation. ~ Baltasar Gracian

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Confusion Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:36:29 +0000

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. ~ Albert Einstein
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. ~ Fred Allen
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. ~ Henry Miller
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. ~ Michael J Gelb
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. ~ Albert Einstein
Don’t confuse facts with reality. ~ Robert D. Ballard
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business. ~ Michael J. Fox
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. ~ Larry Leissner
If you can’t convince them, confuse them. ~ Harry S. Truman
If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another. ~ Luciano Pavarotti
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love. ~ Stanley Kubrick
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~ Kin Hubbard
Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are confusion to the soul. ~ George Carman
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse gratitude with love. ~ Mexican Proverb
Never confuse movement with action. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. ~ Marlon Brando
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. ~ James Thurber
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith. ~ Randall Terry
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. ~ James A. Michener
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. ~ Sarah Fielding
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly. ~ U. Peter
Too many calls confuse the dog. ~ African Proverb
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. ~ Francis Bacon
Two flavors confuse the palate. ~ Ivorian Proverb
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. ~ Yves Saint Laurent
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. ~ Chuck Jones

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Society Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:17:00 +0000

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
A man becomes like those whose society he loves. ~ Hindu Proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.~ Greek Proverb
If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society. ~ Greek Proverb
It is our first duty to serve society. ~ Samuel Johnson
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can’t get into it do that. ~ Oscar Wilde
No man can have society upon his own terms. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. ~ Valerie Solanis
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ~ B. F.Skinner
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. ~ Simone De Beauvoir
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ~ Oscar Wilde
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all. ~ Publilius Syrus
Society is a hospital of incurables. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school. ~ Henry Sedgwick
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. ~ George Santayana
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny. ~ Clair Oliver
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The happiness of society is the end of government. ~ John Adams
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ~ Henrik Ibsen
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. ~ Margaret Thatcher
There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. ~ John Naisbitt
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment. ~ Margaret Mead
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? ~ Irv Kupcinet
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches. ~ Frank DeFord
You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled. ~ Author Unknown

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Reflection Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:53:43 +0000

A mirror does not reflect a broken heart. ~ Iranian Proverb
A reflection does not see itself. ~ African Proverb
Boring people are a reflection of boring people. ~ Doug Horton
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~ Confucius
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. ~ Giambattista Vico
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. ~ James Levin
Gifts reflect those who give them. ~ Chinese Proverb
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. ~ Goethe
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee. ~ Goethe
I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action. ~ Willa Lather
If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don’t drink it. ~ Chinese Proverb
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can’t do anything from early habit. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart. ~ Hannah Moore
Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others. ~ Author Unknown
Muddied water does not reflect. ~ French Proverb
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one. ~ Goethe
No mirror ever reflected an ugly woman. ~ Spanish Proverb
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues
No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. ~ Author Unknown
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Reflection makes men cowards. ~ William Hazlitt
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ~ John Locke
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. ~ Thomas Paine
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. ~ William M. Thackeray
There are three methods to gain wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. ~ Confucius
We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? ~ Madame Dorothe Deluzy
We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. ~ Kirsten Zambucka
We should learn, by reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. ~ Thomas Fitzosborne
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. ~ Joseph Edward Murphy

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Be Social!

Nabil Medawar — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:06:03 +0000

ِA man becomes like those whose society he loves. ~ Hindu Proverb
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. ~ H. L. Mencken
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. ~ Confucius
Don’t be just another member of society, be a living example of your dreams and goals. ~ Author Unknown
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. ~ Austin O’Malley
Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it. ~ John Ruskin
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. ~ Bowyer Bell
If you want to innovate, to change an enterprise or a society, it takes people willing to do what’s not expected. ~ Jean Riboud
In our society a man is known by the company he owns. ~ Gerald F. Lieberman
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes. ~ Svetlana Alliluyeva
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. ~ Goethe
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. ~ Max Eastman
Let a man’s talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself. ~ William Hazlitt
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ~ Goethe
Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. ~ Jim Rohn
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ~ Eric Hoffer
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. ~ John W. Gardner
The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society. ~ Robert J. Havighurst
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. ~ Sandra Day O’Connor
The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. ~ Roy L. Smith
The happiest people are those who are contributing to society. ~ Ted Turner
The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. ~ Aristotle
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. ~ H.G. Wells
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. ~ William M. Thackeray
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. ~ Eric Hoffer
To be social is to be forgiving. ~ Robert Frost
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. ~ Margaret Oliphant
To heal ourselves we also have to heal society. ~ Riane Eisler
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. ~ James Russell Lowell
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. ~ Dean William R. Inge
Women and men have to fight together to change society — and both will benefit. ~ Muriel Fox

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City Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:43:01 +0000

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. ~ Herbert Prochnow
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.~ Margaret Mead
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ~ Aristotle
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. ~ Walt Whitman
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ~ John Ruskin
Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another. ~ Plato
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. ~ Rupert Brooke
City life is millions of people being lonesome together. ~ Henry David Thoreau
If each person would sweep before his own house, the city would soon be clean. ~ Polish Proverb
If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes. ~ Iranian Proverb
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ~ Geoffrey F. Fisher
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Man’s course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city. ~ Alexander Maclaren
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. ~ Cyril Connolly
The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo. ~ Desmond Morris
The city is recruited from the country. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The city that negotiates is half conquered. ~ French Proverb
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. ~ Walt Whitman
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city. ~ Kathleen Norris
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. ~ Jane Austen
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. ~ Joseph Brodsky
What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city. ~ Coriolanus III
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men. ~ Iranian Proverb

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