I Quotes
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“It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.”
Source: The Philanderer
“It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.”
Source: Point of the lance
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”
“It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.”
“It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.”
“It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.”
“It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these focal points or reminders, the belief that all is holy and "big with God" will soon dwindle into a mere sentiment. But if these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm.”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“It is well to lie fallow for a while.”
Source: Poetical works
“It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.”
“It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.”
“It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.”
“It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.”
“It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack”
Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world," wrote Churchill when planning the feeding of his troops on the north-west Indian frontier at the tail-end of the nineteenth century.”
Source: Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table
“It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason”
“It is well to remember your heart is not God's compass. Stop following your heart and start following God.”
Source: Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire
“It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
“It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.”
Source: Thoughts
“It is well understood in psychology that the subconscious mind has the dominant influence on human decision making, and therefore the pivotal role of the subconscious, for you to achieve success, is inescapable.”
Source: Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
“It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.”
“It is well with my soul.”
“It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true male never yet walked
Who liked to listen when his mate talked.”
“It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.”
Source: How To Sell Your Way Through Life
“It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.”
Source: Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches
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“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.”
Source: Mental Efficiency: Top of Bennett
“It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.”
“It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.”
“It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.”
Source: Foundation Trilogy
“It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!”
Source: Dead Souls: A Novel
“It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are really expressive; that is when they really smile. Hence I carefully watched my own infants. One of them at the age of forty-five days, and being in a happy frame of mind, smiled... I observed the same thing on the following day: but on the third day the child was not quite well and there was no trace of a smile, and this renders it probable that the previous smiles were real.”
“It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches
“It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.”
“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”
“It is what a person will do with the saved money that will make a big difference in his or her finances”
“It is what a woman, leaves off, not what she puts on that gives her cachet”
“It is what I do now: not go, not
see or touch.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.”
Source: Why I Wake Early: New Poems
“It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.”
“It is what is surrendered to others that leaves you at their mercy.”
Source: Life Is a Dance
“it is what it is”
“It is what it is, and it is what it isn't.”
Source: Surely the Moon
“It is what it is because you allowed it to be so.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“It is what it is because you let it be so.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem