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wisdom expectations looks
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wisdom knowledge literature
Charles Caleb Colton We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
wisdom next profit
Charles Caleb Colton The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Charles Caleb Colton Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
wisdom perfection
Charles Caleb Colton Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
wisdom character
Charles Caleb Colton The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom age next
Charles Simmons Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
wisdom jesus son
Charles Stanley God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.
mistake ends chains
Charles Stross Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Charles Spurgeon Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.
mistake thinking saving
Charles Spurgeon Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.
mistake military iraq
Alan Grayson U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.
mistake made ifs
Alan Greenspan If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
mistake successful careers
Alan Greenspan People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
mistake self made
Alan Greenspan I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,
mistake thinking different
Alain Prost Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
mistake boss clerks
Al Neuharth When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
wine men envy
Charles Dickens The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
wine voice broken
Charles Dickens "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
wine knowing drunk
Edith Wharton I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.
wine bottles opening
Edith Wharton We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!
wine simple glasses
David Hyde Pierce Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.
wine way helping
Athenaeus the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.
wine gentleman use
Athenaeus It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.
wine years glasses
Athenaeus On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.
wine glasses dust
Arthur Rubinstein ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'