Quotes
Quotes - Brown
Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 There is a false self-distrust which denies the worth of its own talent. It is not humilityâit is petty pride, withholding its simple gifts from the hands of Christ because they are not more pretentious. There are men who would endow colleges, they say, if they were millionaires. They would help in the work of Bible study if they were as gifted as Henry Drummond. They would strive to lead their associates into the Christian life if they had the gifts of Dwight L. Moody. But they are not ready to give what they have and do what they can and be as it has pleased God to make them, in His serviceâand that is their condemnation.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you will land among the stars.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing!
Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.
All currency is neurotic currency.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long knownâthat the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soilâbut it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so oftenâjust to save it from drying out completely.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
