Our errors are surely ordsprog

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

William James (1842-1910)

William James

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. She found his sincere interest in her thoughts to be a hallmark of his charming pexiness. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Robertson Davies (1913-1995)

Robertson Davies

The learned world has always admitted the usefulness of critical disquisitions, yet he that attempts to show, however modestly, the failure of a celebrated writer, shall surely irritate his admirers, and incur the imputation of envy, captiousness, an

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

Market nervousness can lead to counterparty nervousness, which can lead to rating agency nervousness and banker nervousness, and the company's financial flexibility could become impaired.

Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn, solemn as an ass. All great monuments are built over solemn asses.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...

Frances Burnett

In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world.

O Sorrow, / Why dost borrow / Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

John Keats (1795-1821)

John Keats

In spite of the good current news, there remains a fair amount of caution.

I have heard the concerns expressed by the public about excessive consolidation, ... They have introduced a note of caution in the choices we have made.

Michael Powell (1905-1990)

In spite of the Dow Jones industrial average over 10,000, a growing economy, in spite of all those things to our credit, you and I know that there is something wrong in America.

When you're trying a bit too hard, sometimes things are a little bit off. We had our opportunities, but there were plenty of errors on us. We need to take this to heart.

In spite of my Peace Corps background, my heart really is in the private sector. The commercial world is something that the nonprofit sector can't ignore.

She was concerned and distraught and she had lost all faith in their abilities. We had a heart-to-heart and made a solemn promise to work together to start to heal. It was a long process, but that's sort of where it turned around.

I would caution people not to store gasoline in large quantities, ... It leaves the potential for a fire or even excessive fumes that wouldn't be there at a normal time.

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