James Parton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
-- James Parton

#Business Success #Seven #Fidelity
From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin. No lady alive can show such a skin. I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather, But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together. Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear, Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare. Though so much of Heaven appears in my make, The foulest impressions I easily take. My parent and I produce one another, The mother the daughter, the daughter the mother.
-- James Parton

#Daughter #Mother #Fall
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.
-- James Parton

#Men #Romance #Mystery
If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.
-- James Parton

#Jesus #Order #World
E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.
-- James Parton

#Religion #Definitions #Fanaticism
Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them.
-- James Parton

#Hate #Rivals #Rivalry
On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years, dates from the moment when the soft hand of Mr. Van Buren touched Mrs. Eaton's knocker.'
-- James Parton

#War #Writing #Hands

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.
The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do.
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.
I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Happiness is attained through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

James Parton famous quotes

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