The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954 Category: Miscellaneous
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. – H.T. Leslie Category: Miscellaneous
Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. – John B. Gough Category: Miscellaneous
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. – Elizabeth Bowen Category: Miscellaneous
One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. – Frank Sheed Category: Speaking
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, thats what I really like. – Joan Armatrading Category: Romantic
