(24 quotes found)
“If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.”
Cavett Robert
“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.”
Bill Cosby
“The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.”
Sid Caesar
“Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
Baltasar Gracian
“Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.”
William Osler
“I particularly like your American ones, where the hero is invariably amorous, alcoholic and practically indestructible.”
Richard Leofric Jackson
“Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard”
Aristotle
“We populate the stories with people who share certain traits. Invariably, someone will say, "I know that guy." Every world has odd people.”
Christopher Guest
“There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.”
John Gall
