If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein on success
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein on taxes
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. George Eliot on beauty
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. George Eliot on pain
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. George Eliot on silence
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. George Eliot on success
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot on suffer
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot on literature
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot on words
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. Antisthenes on enemy
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. Antisthenes on envy
Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellow men. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter. L.G. Elliott on success
If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. David Ellis on success
Every artist writes his own autobiography. Havelock Ellis on art
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis on religion
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis on sex
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson on ability
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. Ralph Waldo Emerson on adversity
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson on adversity