These 30 Quotations are worth their Price in Gold!

 

  1. Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer 1902 – 1983
  2. Everybody wants to be somebody: Nobody wants to grow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1834
  3. Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage of cash. Walter Richard Sickert, 1860 – 1942
  4. How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound! Joseph Joubert, 1754 – 1824
  5. The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Sophocles, c. 496 – 406 B.C.
  6. The offender never pardons. George Herbert, 1593 – 1633
  7. There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. Samuel Butler, 1612 – 1680
  8. You can discover what a man fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer, 1902 1983
  9. Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself Georg Groddeck, 1866 – 1934
  10. Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844- 1900
  • By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. Miguel de Cervantes, 1547 – 1616
  1. The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them. Benjamin Jowett, 1817 – 1893
  2. People hate those that make them feel their own inferiority. Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 1694 – 1773
  3. Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 – 1680
  4. No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it. John Churton Collins, 1848 – 1905
  5. A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil, 1909 – 1943
  6. The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners. Edmund Spenser, 1552 – 1599
  7. No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
    Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  8. To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742–1799
  9. There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874_1936
  10. There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. H. Bradley, 1846 – 1924
  11. Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself. H. Weiler, 1909 – 1943
  12. Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. H. Gambrich 1909 –
  13. The people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 – 1936
  14. It is the property of fools, to be always judging. Thomas Fuller, 1654 – 1734
  15. Only the shallow know themselves. Oscar Welles, 1854 – 1900
  16. Never mistake motion for action Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  17. A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill. 1873 – 1965
  18. Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler, 1835 – 1902
  19. No one makes you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884 – 1962