You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in he
No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.
With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.
He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.
Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow bodyВbuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.
Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.
Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.
Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.
When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.
Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience
