citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, marzo 1985
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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
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 80
“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
“Normal is the wrong name often used for average.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p.135
“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
“The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92
“Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 96
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), pp. 91-92
“Dive where the water is deep.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 81
“When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 35
“Only occasional hours meet our full requirements.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 37
“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
“Some talk in quarto volumes and act in pamphlets.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 77
“Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92
“It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92
“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
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 115
“Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 100
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 117
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 77
“Tradition supplants inspiration with the warmed-over article.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 134
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 118
“He who longs for the far-away proves thereby that he has corrupted the near-at-hand.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 111