Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
