Top 25 Wells Quotes of 2909 - Page 9

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

Larry Elder

People, Misguided, Wells

"Open-Minded Liberals?" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 24, 2008.

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

Dashiell Hammett

Son, Wells, Falcon

"Fictional character: Kasper Gutman". "The Maltese Falcon", www.imdb.com. October 3, 1941.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Anton Chekhov

Literature, Wells

Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 23, 1888.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

Thomas Paine

Political, Politics, Wells

Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.51

Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.

Studs Terkel

Bread, Wells, Daily Bread

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Plato

Lying, Stones, Wells

Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.415

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

John Bunyan

Ill, Wells

John Bunyan (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan ...: Reprinted from the Author's Own Editions”, p.583

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Jim Ramstad

Taxpayers, Taxes, Wells

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

Jack Nicklaus

Player, Events, Wells

He listens well who takes notes.

Dante Alighieri

Divine Comedy, Notes, Wells

Dante Alighieri (2006). “Inferno: The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Canticle One”, p.122, Hackett Publishing

I am a fool. That is well known.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fool, Well Known, Wells

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Shulamith Firestone

Fantasy, Wells

Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

Shawn Johnson

Machines, Body, Wells

It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.

Sargent Shriver

Be Prepared, Wells, Prepared

Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well.

Robert Kiyosaki

Fire, Employee, Wells