Robert Quillen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
-- Robert Quillen

#Ignorance #Knowledge #Intelligence
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
-- Robert Quillen

#Funny #Age #Body
Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.
-- Robert Quillen

#Fall #Character #Reputation
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
-- Robert Quillen

#Science #Space #Wish
Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.
-- Robert Quillen

#Years #Differences #Dying
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
-- Robert Quillen

#Giving #Mind #Genius
The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.
-- Robert Quillen

#Simple #Secret #Happy Marriage
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."
-- Robert Quillen

#Gratitude #Appreciation #Use
The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.
-- Robert Quillen

#Ignorance #Tragedy #Complacency
You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.
-- Robert Quillen

#Fun #Weather #Forget
Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning
-- Robert Quillen

#Morning #Past #Wish
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back
-- Robert Quillen

#Loss #Exercise #Hands
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
-- Robert Quillen

#Hurt #Giving Up #Feel Better
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
-- Robert Quillen

#Inspirational #Motivational #Faith
Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.
-- Robert Quillen

#Jobs #Government #Anxious

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