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Friday Filosophy #2016-8

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Pride is a double edged sword. One side is good and the other, well, not so good. Here are some provocative thoughts on pride for Friday Filosophy #2016-8.  Since our focus is on learning, remember that pride can be the enemy of attaining knowledge.  On the other hand, pride in our work can push us to achieve more.

 

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

 

Concept is God’s gift to little men.

Bruce Barton

 

Some of the proudest and most arrogant people I have known were morons and paupers, while some of the most wonderful and humble were wealthy.

Howard Callahan

 

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar but is due to pride in one’s work – the pride that makes business an art.

Henry L Doherty

 

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Benjamin Franklin

 

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Alexander Pope.

 

My pride fell with my fortunes.

William Shakespeare

 

If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time.

Jonathon Swift

 

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Henry Ford

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2015-39

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I’d like to begin our Friday Filosophy #2015-29 by wishing each and every one of you a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. I grew up in Canada and Thanksgiving is October, close to Columbus Day, and that is also close to my birthday, I love pumpkin pie. So have some cider, or whatever your choice of beverage, enjoy turkey and the complete meal. Most important of all please enjoy your families. Cheers!

 

Our rural ancestors, with little blest,

Patient of labour when the end was rest,

Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,

With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.

Alexander Pope

 

What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

Erma Bombeck

 

Thanksgiving, after all is a word of action.

J. Cameron

 

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.

Robert Caspar Lintner

 

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not a coincidence.

Erma Bombeck

 

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day

Irv Kupcinet

 

The time is now.