"The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them."

-- Laurence Sterne

#Success Quotes #Failure Quotes #Evil Quotes

“A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.”
“You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.”
“Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.”
“Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.”
“The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.”
“I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand...”
“If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.”
“I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself”

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