Quotations are the fundamental distillation of a writer’s life and thinking as recorded in words and phrases for posterity. Through them the reader is afforded the unique opportunity to share in the thoughts, the life and the experiences of the writer. In a special way, they offer the reader a window into the mind of the author and hopefully an inducement to read further and learn more about the author and the story he relates.


On a wider scale, they are, as William Feather wrote, “the wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages preserved into perpetuity“, and as such they are available for the enrichment and enhancement of humanity, regardless of age, sex, race, educational or economic status. They are indeed, as the Talmud states, “food for the famished”.

The collection of quotations presented in this blog, have been chosen by me because of their special impact upon me. They have been published so that you too, may experience the joy I have had over the years reading them and getting to know the authors.


I trust that you will come to know the feeling of deep satisfaction possible from reading them, searching out the author and meditating upon their meaning and their impact on your life.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

REPUTATION

He must also have a good Reputation with outsiders,
so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil's trap. …..Timothy 3:7

When a door opens without your knocking,
consider your Reputation. …….Arabian Proverb

Reputation is the shell a man discards
when he leaves life for immortality. …….Author Unknown

How difficult it is to save the bark of Reputation
from the rocks of ignorance. ……. Petrach*

Character is like a tree and Reputation its shadow.
The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing. ……Abraham Lincoln

You can't build a Reputation on what you're going to do. …….Henry Ford

Glass, China and Reputation are easily cracked,
and never mended well. …….Benjamin Franklin

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out;
But it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. …….James Russell Lowell

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