Thursday, April 30, 2020

Citable Quotes: 10 Reader ‘Digest (1984)


Citable Quotes: 10 Reader ‘Digest (1984)




179. Everything is said; but the things every time they are sincere, they are new.
180. Thunder is good, it is great. However, lightning does the job.
181. They are seen more easily, those who have learned to dance.
182. Sport is the toy department of human life.
183. I do not like the man who is too capable. It is probably not human enough.
184. Instinct must be turned into reflection, if reflection is to become instinctive.
185. Whoever tells us not to be bothered by small things; surely, he has never slept in a room with a mosquito.
186. Tell me what you are doing and I will tell you who you are.
187. We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
188. The blackest hour has only 60 minutes of sex appeal, 50% is what you really have; the other 50% is what others attribute to us.
189. Our flaws irritate us more when we observe them in others.
190. The man who has no patience is like a lamp without oil.
191. People learn something new every day, and it is often that what they learned the day before was wrong.
192. Nothing is as exposed to being branded as exaggeration as the language of naked truth.
193. Men may doubt your words, but they will believe your actions.
194. If in the course of a few years you have not discarded an important opinion, nor acquired a new one, take your pulse, you may be dead.
195. The best that can be given to children besides good habits are good memories.
196. You carry more than one type of problem at a time. There are those who carry three; all they had, all they now have, and all they hope to have.
197. A friend is someone with whom you can do anything and enjoy it.
198. When we say that nobody understands us, we may be moving away from them or from everyone.
199. Most people say that as you get older, you have to give up certain things. I think that you get older because you give up certain things.

With affection,

Ruben

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