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Elbert Hubbard
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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E. H. Gombrich
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
E. J. Smith, 1907,
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.
E. Joseph Crossman
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
E. Joseph Crossman
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
E. L. Doctorow
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
E. M. Cioran
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
E. M. Forster
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
E. M. Forster, "A
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
E. M. Forster, A P
Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
E. M. Forster, How
The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
E. M. Forster, Two
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster, Two
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Kelly
The difference between a boss and a leader a boss says, 'Go' - a leader says, 'Let's go'
E. R. Bulwer-Lytto
'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
E. R. Bulwer-Lytto
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
E. R. Bulwer-Lytto
Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
E. V. Lucas
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. W. Dijkstra
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
E.B. White
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E.B. White
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E.C. Stedman
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.
e.e. cummings
to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else--is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.
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