The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. |
The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back |
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? |
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success |
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool. |
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. |
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. |
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . |
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies |
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. |
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. |
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. |
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. |
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. |
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. |