Quotes by Horace Greeley
about illusion
"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
about determination
"He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end."
Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
about think
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
about intelligence
"The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
Quotes by Malcom Forbes
about business
"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."
Quotes by R. A. Dickson
"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards."
Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
Quotes by Steady Eddy
about live
"He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun"
Quotes by Havelock Ellis
about obscene
"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."
Quotes by Salvador Dali
about mad
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"
Quotes by Charles Anderson Dana
about news
"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news."
Quotes by Clarence Darrow
about lives
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."