DEALING WITH OTHERS

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword.
- Oscar Wilde

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemial substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

In love, there is always one who kisses, and one who offers the cheek.
- French Proverb

The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects Moral and Diverting"

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.
- Henry Becque

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
- Anonymous

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P.G. Wodenhouse

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
- Daniel Greenberg

Only some of us can learn by other people's mistakes. The rest of us have to be the other people.
- Chicago Tribune

Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the leader, the scenery never changes.
- Lewis Grizzard

You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln

You can fool some of the people some of the time, and jerk the rest off.
- Robin Williams

Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug.
- Bill Baker

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
- Elbert Hubbard

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
- Anatole France

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
- Wilson Mizner

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
- Libbie Fudim

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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