Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745) A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
US dramatist (1911 - 1983) America is a mistake, a giant mistake. Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939) Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
US poet (1807 - 1882) Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
First president of US (1732 - 1799) To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Bernard M. Baruch, 1940
US businessman & politician (1870 - 1965) You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917 Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. Unknown
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