"Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Benevolence Quotes #Politeness Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long.”
“Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.”
“Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.”

Source : Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.52
“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.”
“I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.”
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.”
“Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.”

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