gkrieshok’s most recent Quotables

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

In comparison to parents, spouses, and children, siblings are relatively invisible in contemporary film and literature.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Order is difficult, mayhem is easy. Specifically, you can contribute significantly to mayhem by putting in an hour here or there.

One of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of books; they doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought forth.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

In politics, the angry person is generally understood to be the loser.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Perhaps the most important attribute of an editor is obsessive organization, processing work unrelentingly until it is done.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.