Quotes about Making

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. "
-Voltaire

"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
-Voltaire

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
-George Washington

"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
-Aristotle

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time."
-George Bernard Shaw

"A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her."
-George Bernard Shaw

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
-John Lennon

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Thinking evil is making evil."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
-Oscar Wilde

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
-Oscar Wilde

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
-Confucius

"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."
-Meister Eckhart

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
-Michel de Montaigne

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
-Benjamin Franklin

"He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else."
-Benjamin Franklin

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."
-Booker T. Washington

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. "
-Booker T. Washington

"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility."
-Leo Tolstoy

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
-Samuel Butler

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
-John Ruskin