Quotes on Wells

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

What's well begun is half done.

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.