Frasi di Henry S. Haskins

Henry S. Haskins , scrittore statunitense.

✵ 1875 – 1957
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Henry S. Haskins Frasi e Citazioni

Henry S. Haskins: Frasi in inglese

“Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 82

“Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 137

“It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 22

“Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.”

Variante: Sedate ignorance is the last stage of deterioration.
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 135

“Dive where the water is deep.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49

“The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 108

“Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 22

“It is getting what we started to get, not the thing got, which spells success.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 133

“Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104

“When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104

“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 74

“Tradition supplants inspiration with the warmed-over article.”

Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 134