Humour is the tool best used to cut down the pompous, and which also teaches the weakened that it is not wise to be overexposed in polite society.
At the risk of being branded a serial liar, duplicity will always be on the agenda for anyone with the intelligence to understand its uses.
Indifference is that force in a man’s life that motivates him to remove mountains of crap from his path, just to see the true nature of the way ahead.
What really needs to be done with people who don’t like you is to make sure they don’t interfere with what you do; which is something that can become the beginnings of a lot of hard work.
On occasion some people can look at you as if you’ve just curdled the milk for their morning coffee, but then what could you have done to make them feel like that if it wasn’t less than nothing?
What you don’t know beforehand, what makes you think you had a chance of knowing about in the first place?
If you give someone payment for nothing he comes to expect it; while if you give him nothing but good advice he’ll expect better next time.
There are always going to be people who don’t like to hear the truth, but that’s probably only because they know it already and don’t like to be reminded of it by the likes of you…
The past, when you go back to look at it, seems different from the present in one specific way: that it’s no longer there to be seen as it once was.
Somebody who has occupied the moral high ground at your expense will also do so with a sense of righteous justification as morally justified by his position over you. But that still doesn’t make him right, only your own failings can do that.
Being overwhelmed is often a simple matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time while doing the wrong things, but what you should always be thinking about is how to survive it now.
Someone else’s troubles are something best avoided, if only to prevent them becoming your own simply on someone else’s instigation.
Most people haven’t got time to waste your time; but if they did they’d be happy to do it all the time, as it’s worthless to them anyway.
About Me
- Drew Byrne
- Basically, I am someone interested in quotations, those mainly being of an aphoristic form; consequently, I have collected many examples together over the years, ones which I most liked, warmed to, or appreciated. Although most of these I cannot really now recall without looking them up, and so I supppose are not of much use except as written ornaments to an inefficient memory, but so it goes. I am interested in archaeology, history, and antiques, although not as much as I once was. Philosophy, also, has interested me from time to time, although I never learned much about it. It has been said (although certainly not by me) that “in time, most men become philosophers, although not particularly good ones.” I can say without much hesitation that that I am one of these fellows.
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