Bears don't live on Park Avenue.
|
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
|
What is called vainglory is self-satisfaction, nourished by nothing but the good opinion of the multitude, so that when that is withdrawn, the satisfaction, that is to say, the chief good which every one loves, ceases. For this reason those who glory in the good opinion of the multitude anxiously and with daily care strive, labour, and struggle to preserve their fame. For the multitude is changeable and fickle, so that fame, if it be not preserved, soon passes away. As every one, moreover, is desirous to catch the praises of the people, one person will readily destroy the fame of another; and, consequently, as the object of contention is what is commonly thought to be the highest good, a great desire arises on the part of every one to keep down his fellows by every possible means, and he who at last comes off conqueror boasts more because he has injured another person than because he has profited himself. This glory of self-satisfaction, therefore, is indeed vain, for it is really no glory.
|
He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.
|
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
|
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don
|
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
|
Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
|
I made my money by selling too soon.
|
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
|
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
|
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
|
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.
|
As for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking, or notion...
|
So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of struggle are over,' I should be able to say. 'I can look back now and tell myself I don't have a single regret.' But I do. Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. 'Harpo, my boy,' he said, 'I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember.' My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. 'Yes, sir' I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.
|
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
|
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
|
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
|
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
|
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
|
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
|
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
|
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
|
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
|
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
|
Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
|
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
|
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
|
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
|
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
|