“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
Lao-Tsu in the “Tao Teh King” [sic] quoted in Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power
’Nothing succeeds like success” - Alexandre Dumas in Ange Pitou 1854
“Nothing succeeds like excess” - Oscar Wilde 1894
“Nothing recedes like success” - Bryan Forbes 1926
“Nothing succeeds like address” - Fran Lebowitz 1978
“those who attach too much importance to immediate victory will abandon any project at the first hint of failure. There is nothing that fails like success.” - G.K. Chesterton in Heretics 1905
All from Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)
Re the title character, a dog, doing things like hunting, fighting, being full, lying in the sun etc. “They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”
Jack London White Fang
In my latest National Post column I say Brexit turned into an incomprehensible, messy train wreck because the people meant to be taking Britain out of the European Union didn’t have faith in Britain as a sovereign nation.
“On limited lines I was making progress, but the wings of imagination still drooped nervelessly at my sides.”
Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands