#ow

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#being #business #disagree #disagreeable #discovered

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. ↗

— Herman Melville

#better #delight #give #mankind #persons

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#hard #his #know #lie #man

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.' ↗

— Menander

#good #know #know thyself #many #others

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #free #i #i believe #i believe that

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#change #enjoys #hairstyles #i #i am

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#grow #grows #hard #heart #soft

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#books #facets #knowledge #learning #men

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#beauty #compete #effort #flowers #never

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#calm #else #find #look #nowhere