Hemingway on Drinking

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
– Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)

Hemingway on Doing Things Sober

“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
– Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)

Great Quotes: Mark Twain on Honors

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.” – Mark Twain

Pascal on Seeking God

“There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.” –Pascal

Great Quotes: Oscar Wilde on Hurt Feelings

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally."
– Oscar Wilde

Great Quotes: Samuel Johnson on Kindness

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
– Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Great Quotes: C.S. Lewis on Using the Right Words

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
– C.S. Lewis

Great Quotes: Jefferson on Attitude

"Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." – Thomas Jefferson

Great Quotes: John Stuart Mill on War

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

– John Stuart Mill

Great Quotes: Socrates on Reputations

 
“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation [...]

Great Quotes: Ben Franklin on Wine and Happiness

“Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.” — Ben Franklin

Great Quotes: George C. Marshall on Looking Forward

“When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” — General George C. Marshall

Great Quotes: Roosevelt on the Man in the Arena

“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and… sweat and blood; who strives valiantly…who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

Great Quotes: Pascal on Persuasive Ideas

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.” — Blaise Pascal

Great Quotes: Lincoln on Vices and Virtues

Daily Thought:  Be patient with the gents around you…if anyone truly had their act together they’d probably be very, very boring.
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
– Abraham Lincoln

Great Quotes: Sir Francis Bacon on Shortsightedness

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
– Sir Francis Bacon

Great Quotes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Theories

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Great Quotes: Franklin on Money & Values

 
“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
– Benjamin Franklin
 

Great Quotes: Lindbergh on Daring

 
“Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for [...]

Great Quotes: Churchill on Brutal Honesty

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” –Winston Churchill