Quotes
Quotes - Lewis
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. -Joe E. Lewis.
You only live onceâbut if you work it right, once is enough.
'Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis.
Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.
Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.".
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
