Morning Coffee Quotes

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis on details."
- Benjamin N. Cardozo

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
- Leon Trotsky

"To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it."
- Andre Maurois

"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required."
- Winston Churchill

"It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness."
- Edith Wharton

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."
- Charles Dickens

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
- Eric Hoffer

"Never take counsel of your fears."
- Stonewall Jackson

"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality."
- Theodor Adorno

"There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation."
- W. C. Fields

"False friends are worse than bitter enemies."
- Scottish Proverb

"No one ever complains about a speech being too short!"
- Ira Hayes

"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable."
- Donald Trump

"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."
- Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain

"Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."
- Edna St Vincent Millay

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving;
it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
- Thomas Paine

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
- Margaret Thatcher