Henry Cate's Life Humor 1.C

From the Henry Cate Life Humor collection:

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
-Walter Bilbey

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I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
-Josh Billings

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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
-Randolph S. Bourne

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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
-James F. Byrnes

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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
-Albert Camus

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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
-Dale Carnegie

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The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move.
-Frank Crane

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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
-Charles G. Dawes

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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-Thomas Dewar

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Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
-Dandemis

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-Demosthenes

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If something goes wrong, it is more important to talk about who is  going to fix it, than who is to blame.
-Francis J. Gable

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Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
-Willard Gaylin

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
-- Barry Goldwater

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If it can't be understood, it's not finished yet.
-Paul Herbig

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Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
-Edgar W. Howe

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If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell them something for their own good.
-Kin Hubbard

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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
-- Hubert Humphrey

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
-Oliver J. Hart

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Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
-George Horace Lorimer

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What we see depends on mainly what we look for.
-John Lubbock

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When people cease to complain, they cease to think.
-Napolean

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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good  people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
-Theodore Roosevelt

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Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
-George Bernard Shaw

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Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
-Jean Toomer

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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
-Leonardo da Vinci

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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who receives, and thus, like mercey, is twice blessed.
-Erastus Wiman