“for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in William Shakespeare Hamlet
’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)
“Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are 40 men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.”
Alexander Pope, quoted in Globe & Mail January 29, 1997
“Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.”
Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts
“The whole universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it.”
Marcus Aurelius
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
“I think that, as life is passion and action, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“U.S. judge, and Civil War veteran, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.” quoted by Christie Blatchford in Globe & Mail July 7, 2006 [filing from Kandahar, Afghanistan]
“Empty heads have long tongues.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts