Quotes By William Feather

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.