Welldoing Quotes

#1. A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

William Faulkner

#2. Men and women sit penitent over their little displays, watching their little programs, forgetting where they are in favor of where they'd wish to be.

Pierce Brown

#3. A thousand moral paintings I can show
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
More pregnantly than words.

William Shakespeare

#4. Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

Robert Adamson

#5. The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

V.S. Pritchett

#6. If being a hero is a matter of knowing your cues, like the fairy tale said, he'd missed his.

Lev Grossman

#7. People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

Olivier Megaton