Ring out the false, ring in the true.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Sir Matthew Hale
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.
Halen
Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.
Stephen Hales
No news is good news.
Ludovic Halevy
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
Alex Haley
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Sir William Haley
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
Ernest Hemingway
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I. -men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge
Life is warfare.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
If you wish to be loved; Love!
Sex in a woman
Harry Golden, NY Post, January 1
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
In charity there is no excess.
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
Pir Vilayat Khan
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
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