If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
The best way to get something done is to begin.
Source Unknown
The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.
The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer
The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.
You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.
Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business.
It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current.
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.
Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.
Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Manners are love in a cool climate.
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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