Quotes
Quotes - Smith
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole.
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize To tempt us in theatre, senate, or college-- I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes. - Horace Smith and James Smith,
Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.
Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge ... is to be alert to the dawnings.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
