Well Quotes: Inspiring Words for Mindful Living

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides"

David Hare, Playwright

"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself"

William Edward Hickson, Writer

"A problem well stated is a problem half-solved"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth"

Mel Gibson, Actor

"CrossFit is a way of life. You eat well, you train hard, you push yourself. It teaches you so much about yourself"

Ben Smith, Athlete

"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent"

Ed Smith

"You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"Hatred is blind, as well as love"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well"

Voltaire, Writer

"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed"

Robert Frost, Poet

"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"He listens well who takes notes"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Well done is better than well said"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve"

Cristiano Ronaldo, Athlete

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