Category: Quotations

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty.  It is not.  It is the opposite of vulgarity.Coco Chanel

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent.  Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.Thomas Edison

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.Vincent Van Gogh

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.Theodore Roosevelt

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.Mark Twain

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure — try to please everybody.Herbert Bayard Swope