Great Throughts Treasury

"What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her."

"Weak and impulsive people may be, and very often are, sincere, but seldom truthful."

"In women pity begets love, in men love begets pity."

"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody."

"The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded."

"To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery."

"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."

"Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."

"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."

"Envy is the sincerest form of flattery. "

"No matter how dramatic the end result, the good-to-great transformations never happened in one fell swoop. There was no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary lucky break point, no miracle moment. Rather, the process resembled relentlessly pushing a giant heavy flywheel in one direction, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond."

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. "

"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor."

"Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached."

"There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire."