Wsj Historical Quotes & Sayings

Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates. — Neill F. Marriott

Some people meditated. Some people ran laps around a track. When I was tense, I turned yarn into socks. Lots of socks. More socks than any sane woman with the standard-issue pair of feet could possibly use in a lifetime. — Barbara Bretton

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. — Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves. — William S. Burroughs

And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him
he's crazy. Ask him what he means. — H. Beam Piper

Traitors hoist by their own petard?
or victims of the gods?
we shall never know! — Tom Stoppard

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does. — Elmore Leonard

Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent ... — Ludwig Wittgenstein