Are All Men Mush?

Image by Thomas R. Stegelmann via FlickrThe meek shall inherit the earth: they won’t have the nerve to refuse. – John M. Henry




The meek shall inherit the earth – if that’s all right with you. – graffiti



Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas Edison



Men are much more unwillng to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes. – Earl of Chesterfield



Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. – Charles Caleb Colton



Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. – Francois Voltaire



Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Pessimist Invented the Parachute

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The optimist invented the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. – Anonymous




The wheel was man’s greatest invention until he got behind it. – Bill Ireland



God hides things by putting them near us. – Presbyterian Church Bulletin



Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it. – C.P. Scott



Thomas Edison did not invent the first talking machine. He invented the first one you could turn off. – Herbert V. Prochnow



It is a strange fact that the impractical among mankind are remembered. – Hans Zinsser



My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace. – Alfred Bernard Nobel

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We Sell Hope

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Fuel is not sold in a forest, nor fish on a lake. – Chinese proverb

People will buy anything that’s one to a customer. – Sinclair Lewis

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. – Charles Revson

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility and utility is success. – Thomas A. Edison

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. – Peter Drucker

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear. – Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. – Earl Wilson

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It Has No Commercial Future Whatsoever - - -

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I consider that the greatest mission of the motion picture is first to make people happy – to bring more joy and cheer and wholesome good will into this world of ours. And God knows we need it. – Thomas A. Edison

Young man, you should be grateful since, although my invention is not for sale, it would undoubtedly ruin you. It can be exploited for a certain time as a scientific curiosity, but, apart from that, it has no commercial future whatsoever. – Augustine Lumiere

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. – Will Rogers

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in the theater. – Roman Polanski

The camera is a little bit like the knife of a surgeon. – Jean Renoir

The eye hears, the ear sees. – Norman McLaren

In cinema, we must select everything for the camera according to the richness of its power to reveal. – Satyajit Ray

Kinodrama is an opium for the public. – Vertov

Darkly Comical Quotes

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Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by keen desire and by definite resolution to do. – Edgar F. Roberts

When you find a man who knows his job and is willing to take responsibility, keep out of his way and don’t bother him with unnecessary supervision. What you may think is co-operation is nothing but interference. – Thomas Dreier

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. – Spinoza

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind. – Napoleon

When a man has equipped himself by thought and study for a bigger job, it usually happens that promotion comes along even before it is expected. – P.G. Winnett

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for whn Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meet – and that is the first requisite of business. – Thomas A. Edison

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decissiveness itself “makes things go” and creates confidence. – Anne O’Hare McCormick

Second thoughts are ever wiser. – Euripides

He who considers too much will perform little. - Schiller

Darkly Comical Quotes

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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pine

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows. – James Bryce

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more. – William J.H. Boetcker

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. – Hamilton Wright Mabie

Happiness is only a by-product of successful living. – Dr. Austen Fox Riggs

My clearest recollection of a long-ago interview with Thomas A. Edison is of a single sentence that was painted or hung on a wall in his room. In effect, the sentence was: “It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.” That is tragically true. Some of us think, more of us think we think, and most of us don’t even think of thinking. The result is a somewhat cockeyed world. _ Pollack

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow creature. – Sydney Smith

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. – Elbert Hubbard

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