#om

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. ↗

— Ben Sweetland

#car #come #expect #far #fountain

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#bad manners #company #example #flatter #flattery

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#best #bred #converse #easy #fewest

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#animal #called #detest #forth #hate

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#made #promises

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#knows #men #owner #soils #sometimes

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#folly #kingdom #london #many #mistake

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#completely #conduct #ever #experience #information

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#cannot #concealed #defect #ought #overcome

For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#comfortable #comfortable talking #i #life #personal