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William Lyon Phelps Quotes
«If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
| About:
Happiness,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
American Woman, an American, consisted, cow, cowed, ease, happiest
«God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.»
«A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
| About:
Students
| Keywords:
encouraging, forgets
«Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
| Keywords:
alarm, babe, Babes in, extricate, extricated, gradually, moderate, moderation, on fire, urge
«In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
| About:
Company
| Keywords:
assumptions, basically, every week, start up, Three Weeks, throw out, weeks
«Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
Boys and Girls, look upon
«The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.»