"Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary."

-- William Cranch Bond

#Best Work Quotes #Poise Quotes #Dictionary Quotes

“I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.”
“I don't train to absorb the pain, I train to break the pain.”
“One more thing, one more time.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 29, 2016
“And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.”
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”
“What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?”

Source : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I fully realize that every promise I make, the Republicans will double and the Democrats will redouble. They think this will make me vulnerable, but they don't know I have some tricks up my sleeve, along with a box of raisins to munch on while I'm waiting for the returns to come in.”

Source : "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.
“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”

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