The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Quotes by The Bible "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. For the love of money is the root of all ... Read More
Quotes by Walter Bagehot "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise, and their conscience that it is wrong". Quotes by Francis Bacon "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds minds about to religion". Quotes by St Augustine Of Hippo "We ... Read More
Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Fate laughs at probabilities". Quotes by Anita Brookner "All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and...you don't win the favour of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold". Quotes by Elizabeth Dorothea "Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat". Quotes by Ambrose Bierce "Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others". Quotes by Samuel Beckett "What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes". Quotes by Francis Bacon "If a man ... Read More
Quotes by The Bible "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Death flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour. Be not slow to visit the sick. Health and good estate of body are above all gold. Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. The Most High hath created medicines out of the ... Read More
Quotes by Sir John Betjeman "Love-thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, The speed of a swallow; the grace of a boy, With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, I am weak from your loveliness, Joan hunter Dunn. And the scent of her wrap, and the words never said, And the ominous, ominous dancing ahead. We sat in the car-park till twenty to one, And now I'm engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn". Quotes by Louis de Bernieres "Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like ... Read More
Quotes by Robert Burns "To make a happy fireside clime, To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime, Of human life. Ah, gentle dames' it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises!" Quotes by Charlotte Bronte "If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment. Alfred and I intended ... Read More
Quotes by Francis Bacon "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship". Quotes by Aristotle "The perfect friendship is that between good men, alike in their virtue. When men are friends there is no need of justice between them, but though they be just they still need friendship. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. We should wish to behave to our friends as we ... Read More
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