Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.
Henry S. Haskins Quotes
1875–1957 United States
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957) was a stockbroker and man of letters.
- United States
- Businesspeople
Also known as: Henry Haskins
85 quotes
Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Tradition is a prison with majority opinion the modern jailer.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Tradition supplants inspiration with the warmed-over article.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Many a superior brain is blockaded by inferior thoughts.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Sedate ignorance is the last stage of deterioration.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Only occasional hours meet our full requirements.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Some talk in quarto volumes and act in pamphlets.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Normal is the wrong name often used for average.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Ugly facts are a challenge to beautify them.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
We demand about everything of ourselves but discrimination in what we demand.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
Our portion of life is the whole thing for us.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
A distant destination austerely reached rarely compensates for a loved starting-point forever lost.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry S. Haskins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.