Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
Karen Mills
The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
Jack O'Brien
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara De Angelis
Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
Charles Duhigg
For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.
Walter de La Mare
Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.
Kaley Cuoco
I became known as the guy who did the worst show in the history of television.
Jerry Van Dyke
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
W. G. Sebald
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.
Edwin Percy Whipple
