Quotes About Reflection

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

A camel never sees its own hump.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

One must make one's own mistakes

Death was for-the other people.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers.