Don’t pay the ferryman before he gets you to the other side.
Others Quotes
From every path you walk upon a piece of dust will cling to your clothes. Likewise, from every person that crosses your path a piece will cling to your soul.
If anyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on top they are just as intolerant and as cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath.
Ninety percent of people don’t want to hear about your problems, and the other ten percent are glad it’s you.
Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned… Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones. (24th century BC)
Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I’ve found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
Some of us learn from the mistakes of others; the rest of us have to be the others.
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
