#fellow

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gamgee #hobbit #samwise #tolkien #job

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse. ↗

— John Adams

#faith

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#better #care #day #dollar #fellow

Poor fellow, he suffers from files. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#files #poor #suffers

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#fellow #fool #happiest #healthy #living

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. ↗

— Robert Browning

#fellow #him #kiss #make #never

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say. ↗

— Martin Buber

#being #between #conflict #fellow-men #i

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#fellow #good #good story #invariably #other

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#fellow #gets #parking #patriot #real

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#consolations #corner #create #creatures #deserves