One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.
When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.
Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.
You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.
. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.
Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.
Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.
Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.
Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).
There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear.... None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of.
Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.
It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.
The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.
Those carried away by power are soon carried away.
When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.
If you can read and don't, you're dumb.
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