Langenhoven Quotes

#1. Yes is like credit, No is like cash.

C.J. Langenhoven

#2. Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him.

C.J. Langenhoven

#3. The shorter the visit, the quicker you'll be invited back.

C.J. Langenhoven

#4. God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

C.J. Langenhoven

#5. To test a man, determine how much it takes to make him lie.

C.J. Langenhoven

#6. Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

C.J. Langenhoven

#7. Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

C.J. Langenhoven

#8. Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

C.J. Langenhoven

#9. A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. A bit of luck a lot of perseverance and sustained fortitude we can overcome any impediment that life may present to us.

Archibald Gumiro

#11. There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.

C.J. Langenhoven

#12. A man with no enemies is no good as a friend.

C.J. Langenhoven

#13. I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

Sam Levenson

#14. Custom! that skillful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.

Marcel Proust

#15. God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.

C.J. Langenhoven

#16. To love one's neighbor is a tough command. It works better for people who live far away.

C.J. Langenhoven

#17. It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

C.J. Langenhoven

#18. At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools ... That man has awakened to a new youth ... Ergo, he is young.

George Luks

#19. We need to be grateful for many things that didn't happen.

C.J. Langenhoven

#20. If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.

C.J. Langenhoven

#21. Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket.
"Where does it come from?"
"From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.

C.J. Langenhoven

#23. (T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

Thomas Mann

#24. His body walks out onto the darkened stage , and a roar goes up from the crowd. He stands in front of the mic, and he can feel his face twist in a sneer-the Elvis sneer from his dreams-though he never told it to move. He is powerless now, a spectator at his own moment of glory.

Joseph Garraty

#25. Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

C.J. Langenhoven