Chrysanthemums Book Quotes

#1. Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thucydides

#2. I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

Red Skelton

#3. Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.

Jamie Dimon

#4. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it. Like you breathe. Now doesn't it just astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing? And you are doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it?

Allan Watts

#5. Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Epictetus

#6. If you don't see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you're not going to resonate very much.

Artie Shaw

#7. Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Margaret Drabble