Category Archives: Quote

The Sams in question being Beckett & Warburton. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Worstward Ho 1983

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “IfContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #136”

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”  Winston Churchill

“The more a man is, the less he wants.” Maxwell Perkins

 “The honest man could and did play it as honestly in Diplomacy as the honest man in business or on the executive of a Trade Union. The dishonest man will be no more honest in a new diplomacy than in the old.” Edward Grey

 “Life is like a game of cards. That hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” (Jawaharlal Nehru) (thanks Roz)

Thanks to Anna Farmery of “The Engaging Brand” for this week’s quote. “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple…that’s creativity” Mingus.

A thought on a Welsh rugby win and England’s elevation to top spot in cricket. “You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.” Arlene Blum

“You can earn a living from what you get, but you can only get a life from what you give.” Andy Ripley