Arnold H. Glasow Quotes

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Arnold H. Glasow

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Arnold H. Glasow

It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in , for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. (I used to love the detail that Hampshire's 'New Forest' is so called because it was only planted for the hunt in the late eleventh century.) I remember watching with my father and brother through the fence of Stanstead House, the Sussex mansion of the Earl of Bessborough, one evening in the early 1960s, and seeing an immense golden meadow carpeted entirely by grazing rabbits. I'll never keep that quiet, or be that still, again.This was around the time of countrywide protest against the introduction of a horrible laboratory-confected disease, named 'myxomatosis,' into the warrens of old England to keep down the number of nibbling rodents. Richard Adams's lapine masterpiece is the remarkable work that it is, not merely because it evokes the world of hedgerows and chalk-downs and streams and spinneys better than anything since , but because it is only really possible to imagine gassing and massacre and organized cruelty on this ancient and green and gently rounded landscape if it is organized and carried out against herbivores.

Christopher Hitchens

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Arnold H. Glasow

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Arnold H. Glasow

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Arnold H. Glasow

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Arnold H. Glasow

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Arnold H. Glasow

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Arnold H. Glasow

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H. Glasow

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Arnold H. Glasow

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Arnold H. Glasow

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Arnold H. Glasow