Benefits Quote by Laurence Housman

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one…

— Erich Fromm

“in practical life, of doubtful nature. An act of charity, for example, might do others some sort of damage, as is often the case…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather…

— Harold Brodkey

I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation.…

— Alison Bechdel

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

— Charles Dudley Warner

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

— Francis Quarles

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so…

— James Russell Lowell

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or…

— Mark Twain

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton