Charles R. Forbes (Charles Robert Forbes) Quotes

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

Charles R. Forbes

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• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Enjoy
  • Flattery
  • Gum

• Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Enjoy

• If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

  

  Idries Shah
  • Money
  • Power
  • Happy

• Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Moments

• [Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • World
  • Experience
  • Looks

• I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Wells

• As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Might
  • Wells
  • Pops

• Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Justice

• I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • Wells

• On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Cool
  • Film
  • Wells

• Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • True
  • Perfect

• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Risk
  • Wells
  • Philosophical

• You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Painting
  • Wells
  • Pumps

• I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

  

  Jay-Z
  • Water
  • Baby
  • Rap

• Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.

  

  Fats Domino
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Rock

• Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Men
  • Littles
  • Wells

• Flattery'll get you anywhere.

  

  Charles Lederer
  • Flattery
  • Anywhere

• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Nature
  • Air

• If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe in as a country, you know, then we don't have a religious test in this country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Country
  • American

• Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Easy
  • Silly
  • Love You

• Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Community
  • Discipline
  • Sentences

• I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Cold
  • Touching

• Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Code
  • Ethical
  • Socratic

• It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

  

  Charles R. Forbes
  • Wells
  • Flattery