Quotable quotes: 5Reader'Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 5Reader'Digest (1984)

82. When I was a young thought that socialism constituted the mathematics of justice :

 I But today understand that it is the arithmetic of envy.
83. The inconvenience of being punctual is that we give others the impression that we have nothing to do.
84. The man who has all this worries him less, if that all includes his wife.
85. Only those who try the ridiculous can achieve the impossible.
86. The seriousness of our current economy is that the rich man is rich in paper; if you impoverish, you are required to make constant money.
87. The test of superior intelligence lies in the ability to have the mind two opposing ideas at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
88. Since teenagers are already too old to do what children do, they are not old enough to behave like grown-ups, but they do what no one can think of.
89. Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, because the fear of boredom is the cause of at least half of the sins of humanity.
90. One of the forms of waste is to spend more on words than ideas.
91. It is not necessary to know how to sing. It is enough to feel like doing it so that our day is a success.
92. The intelligent man who prides himself on his intelligence is like the prisoner who boasts of his wide cell.
93. Who said that youth is a state of mind, undoubtedly has more spirit than youth.
94. The television will never replace the newspaper (not completely). Try to kill a fly with a television.
95. We do not even have time to love. What do we have left to hate?
96. Nothing proves noise. Often the hen lays a single egg and cackles as if she had put an asteroid.
97. To hurt you, you just need to act together; your friend. That to slander you and this to give you the news.
98. It is possible for a message to go around the world in a fraction of a second, but it may take years for it to come from the outside into the head of man.
99. Too often, our minds get stuck in only one possibility. We look for red and do not notice blue. And therefore many great minds and thinkers have been lost, because they did not expect the unexpected.
100. Youth is like spring: an overvalued season, in which the cutting winds abound more than the temperate breezes. Autumn is the season of maturity: what we lose in flowers we gain in fruits.
101. Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was comparable to the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition in later centuries. With so much television, humanity no longer sat down to chat on the front steps, nor did it meet in the living room to see if the rose or human warmth enlivened the evening. Henceforth, people sat in poorly lit rooms, alone or in silent groups, which is the same, to see images flashing on an electronic piece of furniture.

With affection,
Rubén

Quotable quotes: 4Reader'Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 4Reader'Digest (1984)

61. One of the wonders of life is precisely that: The wonder of life.
62. When you think you have influence, try to give orders to another dog.
63
After the ship was lost, everyone knows how it could have been saved.
64. If you wish to enjoy a good reputation, strive to be what you appear to be.
65. All triumphs are born when we dare to begin.
66. True tragedies do not result from the confrontation between a right and an injustice.
They arise from the clash of two rights.
67. Eating with music is an insult, both for the cook and for the violinist.
68. Love is not measured by the number of caresses, but by the frequency with which one and the other understand each other.
69. Praise properly debases.
70. Criticism should be applied, in what is said of the cutlery: Never use the knife when you can carve with the spoon.
71. Every generation rebels against parents and makes friends with grandparents.
72. Man has learned to fly like birds, he has only left or need to discover how to do it silently like them.
73. Certain minor vices that obscure the great virtues; and some small virtues that hide great defects.
74. Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
75. "Tell me what you are reading and I will tell you who you are", is a quite true aphorism; but I would know better what you read.
76. The person who talks about his inferiors has none.
77. All life except empty life requires that we break one draft after another.
78. It is difficult to recognize good luck, because it is very similar to something we have earned.
78. If you do not get what you want, it's a sign that you did not crave it seriously, or try to bargain for the price.
79. become indispensable and achieve promotion. I acted as if it was indispensable, and it will descend until it is put on its feet in the street.
80. The modern husband believes that the place of the woman is in the home; and he expects the wife to return there as soon as he finishes his workday.
81. We have probably laid more bridges on roads than on rivers.

With affection,

Rubén

Quotable quotes: 3 Reader ‘Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 3 Reader ‘Digest (1984)

41. Never ever stopped remembering that just existing is fun.
42. The political life of a people marks the condition in which it is found; it marks its moral level, it marks its temper and energy, its character.
43. If we all kept silent unless we knew what we are talking about, a sepulchral silence would descend on the earth.
44. Whoever does not have charity suffers from the worst of heart diseases.
45. The secret to success in dealing with a child is not being one of its parents.
46. ​​Perhaps the most productive words of man are those he uses to praise his wife.
47. The power of a good reputation is like being dead among the living.
48. Doing what others cannot is called innate ability; doing more than innate ability consigns is called genius.
49. It is strange how much one has to know to know, how little one knows.
50. True success is to overcome the fear of failure.
51. "Agree" at the beginning "is the most common way of dissent.
52. The best motorist is the one who drives with imagination. Imagine that your family is in the car.
53
Why medical science will not have devised some method for our ailments to interest our neighbor as well as ourselves?
54. Ignorance is happiness blind to oblivion.
55. Yesterday is a cheek canceled; Tomorrow is a promissory note,  and today is hard cash. Take advantage of it!
55. We could all take advantage of the lesson of the weather: criticisms do not affect anything.
56. He who hastens his life, hastens his death.
57. Admiration is our acknowledgment cuts from someone who looks like us.
58. Of all the arts, the most sublime is the art of living in harmony.
59. We love those who know the worst of us and do not turn our backs on us.
60. Accept in good taste what they ask you to accept.
Accept it and make it an advantage for you.
With affection,

Rubén

Quotable quotes: 2 Reader'Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 2 Reader'Digest (1984)

21. Great geniuses never make half-mistakes; They have the privilege of immensity in every sense of the word.
22. The wise in their attitude toward the world, has no predilections or prejudices.
 It is on the side that is right.
23. Words can be beautiful. Also the children, also the hopes.
24. For my father, manual labor was not only good and dignifying, he also used to say that it gave clarity to his thoughts.
25. When I run away, the more I start to stumble.
26. Humility is the etiquette demanded by the ceremonial for the audiences with God.
27. Some believe that discipline is a thankless task. For me it is a kind of order that gives freedom to fly.
28. Success has no secrets. Do you know any successful man who has not counted as a triumph?
29. What is memory? It is not a warehouse nor a trunk that keeps in the attic, but an instrument that constantly eliminates the past, turning it into an accessible and acceptable story for each one.
30. Lacking something that makes you feel important, is almost the greatest tragedy that can happen to the human being.
31. Those who think they do not have time to prejudice will sooner or later find time to hope.
32. The inhabitants of a planet without flowers would pass it without life; while we are always crazy to be happy to have so many things around us.
33. Always count failures bores to the one who counts them as the one who hears them.
34. Enthusiasts, for those who are not, always constitute a kind of mortification.
35. As long as the war is considered perverse, it will always have a certain fascination.
When it is considered vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
36. Someday you will verify, if what makes you an exceptional being, if at all you are; it is also inevitable that that will make you a lonely being
37. Every night I give my worries to God. After all, he always reproaches.
38. Many men are praised for their modesty and for their supposed shyness. When in fact, they are too proud to risk making a fool of themselves.
39. After 30 years the body has a will of its own.
40. Although it is very good to leave our traces in the sands of time, we must take care that they point towards the recommended direction.

With affection,
Rubén

Quotable quotes: 1 Reader'Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 1 Reader'Digest (1984)

 

1. Most of us would like to return to the simple life, if the path was not so complicated.
2. If two individuals always agree on everything, you can be sure that one of them thinks for both.
3. Humanity can be divided among a multitude that detests that they make it wait, because this bores it; and a few happy beings who like it, because it gives them the time to think.
4. Recognize yourself is not only the most difficult, but also the most annoying.
5. The nations must at least find a way to impose the discipline that is required in elementary school or kindergarten: not to hit , not to  take and share toys; and punish the first one who speaks.
6. Sometimes we say that we are free, because we did not press so hard.
7.The most suitable man for political positions, is the one that meets the qualities of the milkman's horse; It does not pose major problems and knows where to go.
8. The error of youth is to believe that intelligence supplies experience; and the error of mature age is to think that experience replaces intelligence.
9. Men usually ask God in their prayers that two and two be four.
10. Education is a toolbox.
11. A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by question marks.
12. Comedy has to look like the truth. The truth is taken and a curl is added.
13. Memory has the gift of the resurrection.
14. The more I want to do something, the less I consider it work.
15. Very often it is more necessary to change the way of being than to change the scenario.
16. The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge
17. Sometimes the child in one behaves in such a way that the rest of the personality goes behind him slowly shaking his head.
18. Love of nature is a permanent form of love for life.
19. The most pleasant and useful people are those who leave some problems of the universe, so that God cares for them.
20. Moderation is a virtue in those who have no alternative.

With affection,
Ruben