Quotes by Henry S. Haskins

“But its hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.”

“Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.”

“Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.”

“Treat the other mans faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.”

“When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!”

“Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.”

“Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.”

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.

If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.

Disappointments should be cremated not embalmed.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.