We're not treading water. We're swimming toward the goal. It happens little by little.


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ARTHUR BRISBANE
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe...
ARTHUR MILLER
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Experience is the key to greatness.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, a...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the p...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY
Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. Hatred and contempt are decidedly anta...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has n...
ARTHUR KROKER
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the concl...
ARTHUR KOESTLER
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entert...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the produc...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams ...
ARTHUR MILLER
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on...
ARTHUR WINTER
Court... a place where they dispense with justice.
ARTHUR TRAIN
Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt...
ARTHUR MILLER
If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may no...
WILLIAM ARTHUR
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of...
ARTHUR ASHE
Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
ARTHUR BLOCH
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well ar...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER