#adage

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. ↗

— Harold W. Dodds

#best #each #force #insecurity #never

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#anything #believe #busy #childhood #doing

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. ↗

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#always #arrested #arrested development #believed #development

In Chicago, you can't swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally's place stands out from the crowd. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#cat #chicago #anger