“a maddening knowledge that among fools in the land of Egypt I might claim high rank…”
Narrator Shan Greville in Sax Rohmer The Mask of Fu Manchu
“To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
Confucius quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Outside the crucifixion of Jesus, the most famous death scene in all history was the death of Socrates. Ten thousand centuries from now, men will still be reading and cherishing Plato's immortal description of it – one of the most moving and beautiful passages in all literature.”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the casual and inconsistent way governments keep shutting down our lives betrays their conceited conviction that we weren’t doing anything important anyway.
“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The man who said, ‘Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed,’ put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth is, ‘Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.’”
G.K. Chesterton discussing George Bernard Shaw in Heretics, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #1 (Sept. 2001)
“Every man is a d*** fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.”
Elbert Hubbard, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Thomas Carlyle, quoted by Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (he calls them “The twenty-one words that this young medical student read in 1871 helped him to become the most famous physician of his generation.... His name was Sir William Osier.”