What did John Lubbock mean by: Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it. John Lubbock Politician and banker · England Copy
+ Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Author, July 14, 2023January 2, 2025, John Lubbock, Assistance, Service, Sympathy, 0 John Lubbock Politician and banker · England
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Lubbock, Entitlement, Leisure, Work, 0 John Lubbock Politician and banker · England
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Lubbock, Growth, Potential, Utilization, 0 John Lubbock Politician and banker · England
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Lubbock, Contribution, Happiness, Interconnectedness, 0 John Lubbock Politician and banker · England
A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Lubbock, Friendship, Integrity, self-care, 0 John Lubbock Politician and banker · England
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Lubbock, Connectivity, Exploration, Knowledge, 0 John Lubbock Politician and banker · England
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Lubbock, Cleverness, Industry, Success, 0 John Lubbock Politician and banker · England
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Lubbock, External, Imperfect, Internal, 0 John Lubbock Politician and banker · England
I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life. Jean-Michel Basquiat Painter
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
