
“Staying silent, staying away from him… that was the hardest thing I've ever done.”
Source: The Last Olympian
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 446-450.
General Quotes
“Staying silent, staying away from him… that was the hardest thing I've ever done.”
Source: The Last Olympian
LIFE magazine (8 March 1929)
Context: Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.”
Cited in: Colleen Zuck etal. (2002) Daily Word for Families, p. 167
“I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!”
“If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.”
Two By Two