William Lyon Phelps Quotes
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
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A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
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Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.
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The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
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A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
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How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
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I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.
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Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
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PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.
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I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
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Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
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There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.
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Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.
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The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
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I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.
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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
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