Robert Maxwell famous quotes

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
-- Robert Maxwell

#Children #Teaching #Differences

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.
-- Robert Maxwell

#Safety #Safe #England

Money you haven't earned is not good for you.
-- Robert Maxwell

#Scandal #Corruption

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.
-- Robert Maxwell

#Believe #Scotch #People

If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem.
-- Robert Maxwell

#Country #People #Balance

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.
-- Robert Maxwell

#Two #People #Four

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.
-- Robert Maxwell

#Ego #Lasts #Last Time

Money isn't everything. I've got money and I've got everything, and they're not the same.
-- Robert Maxwell

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!

I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.