J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now li

And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?

I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.

There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.

Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.

Judge behavior, not motives.

Micromanagement is the destroyer of momentum.

The importance of momentum in your organization cannot be understated!

In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly you do?

-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand.

When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.

Clearly, his winks were some sort of superpower, because I swear that if he asked me to jump from the roof of a tall building and then winked, I’d jump.

Leave your legacy--not in possessions or accolades--but in moments. Moments that matter.

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one ... able to adapt himself to any situation.

If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.

The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.

When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.

Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.

'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed.

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.

The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.

Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Madam I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.

To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.

Man is that he might have joy.

What you become is what counts.