No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. – Plutarch Category: Effort
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. – Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Effort
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961 Category: Effort
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. – Louis Kronenberger Category: Vanity
And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. Genesis 50:20 – Bible Category: Chance
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. – George Bernard Shaw Category: War
I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didnt stop until she got home. – George Stephen Category: Computers
