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The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by read more
Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committee
for an animal adapted to communities without water..
it was a divine consensus.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
