Richardson Quotes
Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.
The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.
Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.
The most powerful tool that I can share with you to transform any situation is the power of blessing with love. No matter where you work or how you feel about the place, bless it with love.
And there are times that you got to speak up, and you’ve got to call things what they are!
Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!
That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!
If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.