(90 quotes found)
“One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.”
William Feather
“If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.”
“Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.”
“A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.”
“Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.”
“Work is the best method devised for killing time.”
“Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get.”
“Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get.”
“You can always tell a Harvard man -- but you can't tell him very much.”
