The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't wan… - James Gould Cozzens
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't wan…
- James Gould Cozzens
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. - James Gould Cozzens
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking. - James Gould Cozzens
I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.
In the present, every day is a miracle. - James Gould Cozzens
In the present, every day is a miracle.
There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to… - James Gould Cozzens
There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to…
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sens… - James Gould Cozzens
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sens…
I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. - James Gould Cozzens
I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. - James Gould Cozzens
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and… - James Gould Cozzens
Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and…
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