Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have every sympathy with the American [smoker] who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. —Henry G. Strauss More about this quote Tags: humor reading health danger smoking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've been writing a book for years. It's called Horses That Owe Me Money, and I haven't come to the end of it yet. —Sophie Tucker More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They [slot machines] sit there like courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires filled, all lusts satiated. —Frank Scoblete More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ninety percent of [my salary] I spent on booze and women, and the other 10 percent I wasted. —Tug McGraw More about this quote Tags: women alcohol waste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: morality bad good sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. —George Orwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it. —Gautama Buddha More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well. —Jon Kabat-Zinn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. —Lord Acton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a working class — strong and happy — among both rich and poor. There is an idle class — weak, wicked, and miserable — among both rich and poor. —John Ruskin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are. —Rosellen Brown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. —Fannie Hurst More about this quote Tags: people perception money wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email