#attribute

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#misattributed #perseverance #sanity #perseverance

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#characteristics #detection #detectives #facts #obviousness

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#maturity

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#achievement #inspirational #misattributed #modesty #recognition

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#inspirational #life #present #unsourced #inspirational

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#misattributed #paul-valery #writing #art

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#dreadful #god #his #his holiness #holiness

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy. ↗

— Bob Lilly

#attribute #career #crippled #entire #even

Ego is the world's worst narcotic ↗

— Mekael Shane

#human-nature #humor #spiritual #life

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#explained #malice #never #reasonably #stupidity