Pary Quotes

Be courteous to all,

but intimate with few,

and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

There is no short cut to achievement.

Life requires thorough preparation

veneer isn't worth anything.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business

be Short and Comprehensive.

I should like to know if,

taking this old Declaration of Independence,

which declares that all men are equal upon principle,

you begin making exceptions to it,

where will you stop?

If one man says it does not mean a Negro,

why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Quality is more important than quantity.

One home run is much better than two doubles.

A man is usually more careful of his money

than he is of his principles.

Start where you are.

Use what you have.

Do what you can

Arthur Ashe

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot,

but make it hot by striking.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

You have power over your mind—not outside events.

Realize this,

and you will find strength.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?

The taxidermist takes only your skin.

If you're going through hell,

keep going

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

I’m a firm believer in the power of the individual.

One year they asked me

to be poster boy for birth control.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity,

and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Name the greatest of all inventors.

Accident.