William Feather Quotes

The most difficult jobs look easy until you try to do them.

A tinfoil wrapper doesn’t make a bum cigar taste any better.

Experts never seem to tell us what we’re up against until we’re up against it.

He was known to some people as a writer. In his writings he espoused thrift, industry, promptness, perseverance, and dependability. … As far as was possible, the subject of this sketch practiced what he preached. Some of his enemies point to this trait as his foremost weakness.

Every job has two salaries. One is the pay you get. The other is the mental satisfaction you derive from working for the company.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Uneasy lies the head that ignores a telephone call late at night.

Many of us are dull, but not as dull as the grandchildren think we are.

Nothing makes us so sleepy as the bell of our alarm clock.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

The way to get things done is to have a good assistant.

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

A single fact will often spoil an interesting argument.