"The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public."

-- Walter Winchell

#Mother Quotes #Milton Quotes

“Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.”
“Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.”
“I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.”
“If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the ritual brushing of teeth. It's not realistic to believe that you will live your promises as a daily practice -- unless you're a saint or a highly evolved Zen Buddhist. Not where marriage is concerned. But you can make a practice of returning to your vows when the going gets rough.”
“Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.”
“The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.”
“It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.”
“Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.”

Source : Walter Bagehot (1973). “Literary studies”

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