“[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned.” PeopleKnowsShouldTwoHardStoriesWantedHeardFeetExampleLuckBoatBrokeRelateMisfortunesAnticipationOnly TimeGood LuckCursedPassengersTime Will TellOnly Time Will Tell Author:Zelig Pliskin
“I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.” ShouldTryingStatesTermComedyBoatGetting OlderMonitoring Author:Stephen Fry
“The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.” ShouldForceConfusionBoatStreamsConfusedCarrieBiographies Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies.” IfsFeelsShouldOpportunityStudyStudentsBoatExamination Author:Joseph Muscat
“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.” PeopleShouldYearsPersonsI CanHelpingAgeYoungWaterMy OwnPayCryYouthAffairFolksSuperiorsBoatManageReverenceInsistingMeddlingOar Book:The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval Source: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval