Po Bronson Quotes

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

Many can argue - not many converse.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on. You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own you.

It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?

Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

We've all lost something along the way.

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

A good style fits like a good costume.