To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. Robert Louis Stevenson About change, Education, Learning, Wise You May Also Like Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. By Duc de La Rochefoucauld Memory, Wise Mix a conviction with a man and something happens. By Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Beliefs, Convinctions, Wise When a fellow says, “It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,” it’s the money. By Elbert Hubbard Money, Sarcastic, Wise Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. By Leonardo da Vinci Motivational, Thinking, Thought, Wise There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it and when he can. By Mark Twain Projections, Speculation, Wise If you can’t stand the heat, you better get out of the kitchen. By Harry S. Truman (attrib.j Accountability, Wise You May Also Like from Robert Louis Stevenson There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By Robert Louis Stevenson Duty, Happiness, Inspirational You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. By Robert Louis Stevenson Funny, Joke Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. By Robert Louis Stevenson Selling To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. By Robert Louis Stevenson Empowering, Freedom, Inspirational, Motivational, Wise Every man has a sane spot somewhere. By Robert Louis Stevenson Insanity It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. By Robert Louis Stevenson Action, Inevitable, Retrospect
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. By Duc de La Rochefoucauld Memory, Wise
Mix a conviction with a man and something happens. By Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Beliefs, Convinctions, Wise
When a fellow says, “It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,” it’s the money. By Elbert Hubbard Money, Sarcastic, Wise
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. By Leonardo da Vinci Motivational, Thinking, Thought, Wise
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it and when he can. By Mark Twain Projections, Speculation, Wise
If you can’t stand the heat, you better get out of the kitchen. By Harry S. Truman (attrib.j Accountability, Wise
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By Robert Louis Stevenson Duty, Happiness, Inspirational
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. By Robert Louis Stevenson Funny, Joke
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. By Robert Louis Stevenson Empowering, Freedom, Inspirational, Motivational, Wise
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. By Robert Louis Stevenson Action, Inevitable, Retrospect