Well Quotes - page 4

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. (Israel Zangwill)
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. View quote
Horace Mann
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. View quote
William Hazlitt
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. View quote
William Hazlitt
I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. View quote
William Hazlitt
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. View quote
George Eliot
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. View quote
J. P. Donleavy
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well. (Vivienne Westwood)
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. View quote
Steve Martin
I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly. View quote
Jonathan Ive
If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Ambition can creep as well as soar. View quote
Edmund Burke
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. View quote
Gore Vidal
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed. View quote
Robert Frost
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. (Ben Kingsley)
If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. View quote
Stephen Hawking
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
We dont bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we dont dress well and weve got no manners. View quote
George Bernard Shaw