"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."

-- William Cobbett

#Patience Quotes #Men Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.”
“If you can live with the ups and downs, pick yourself up every morning, then there's nothing more gratifying.”
“In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”

Source : "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.
“The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.”
“I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company.”
“Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!”
“It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.”

Source : "Self-Annihilating Sentences: Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Clichés" by Saul Gorn, University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-85-0, (p. 11), repository.upenn.edu. March 1992.
“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.”

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