"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George | Reality | 7 bookmarks

"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."

Baker, Nicholson | Proverbs | 2 bookmarks

"Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind."

Alger, William R. | Proverbs | 3 bookmarks

"A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De | Praise | 2 bookmarks

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."

Nietzsche, Friedrich | Argument | 2 bookmarks

"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Worry | 4 bookmarks

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard | Change | 83 bookmarks

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor | Gossip | 12 bookmarks

"An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. | Elections | 2 bookmarks

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark | Fools and Foolishness | 19 bookmarks