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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners.
If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners.
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write read more
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but read more
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
