
“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
Source: Middlemarch
Source: Firefly Lane
“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
Source: Middlemarch
Anarcharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers
“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”
Source: A Woman of Independent Means
“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.”
As quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942) by H. L. Mencken
“There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
2000s, The Powell Principles (2003)
Source: On Leadership