Why Do People Despise Platitudes?
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. — James Thurber (1894-1961)
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879-1944)
Integrity needs no rules. — Albert Camus (1913-1960)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does. — Anne Roe (1904-1991)
The people who think they are happy should rummage through their dreams. — Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977)
Le sens …show more content…
— Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
. . . We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. — Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)
To oppose something is to maintain it. — Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- )
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love—that is the soul of genius. — Attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it. — Thoreau
Nothing recedes like success. — Walter Winchell (1897-1972)
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year. — Damon Runyan (1884-1946)
When you are right, no one remembers; when you are wrong, no one forgets. — Irish proverb
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. — Carl Jung …show more content…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935)
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. — Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid, ungenerous spirit. — Demosthenes (384 B.C.-322 B.C.)
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat. — Chinese proverb
The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. — D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. — Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. — St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. — Chuang-Tzu (c 369-c 286 BC)
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion. — Lester Markel, American editor (1894-1977)
Only the vanquished remember history. — Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — George Orwell
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. — James Thurber (1894-1961)
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879-1944)
Integrity needs no rules. — Albert Camus (1913-1960)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does. — Anne Roe (1904-1991)
The people who think they are happy should rummage through their dreams. — Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977)
Le sens …show more content…
— Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
. . . We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. — Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)
To oppose something is to maintain it. — Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- )
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love—that is the soul of genius. — Attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it. — Thoreau
Nothing recedes like success. — Walter Winchell (1897-1972)
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year. — Damon Runyan (1884-1946)
When you are right, no one remembers; when you are wrong, no one forgets. — Irish proverb
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. — Carl Jung …show more content…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935)
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. — Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid, ungenerous spirit. — Demosthenes (384 B.C.-322 B.C.)
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat. — Chinese proverb
The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. — D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. — Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. — St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. — Chuang-Tzu (c 369-c 286 BC)
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion. — Lester Markel, American editor (1894-1977)
Only the vanquished remember history. — Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — George Orwell