Elizabeth Foreman Lewis quotes

“Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.”
-- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.116, Macmillan

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“For the lazy, all work is difficult.”
-- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.211, Macmillan

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“The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!”
-- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

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“No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.”
-- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.142, Macmillan

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“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”

“The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.”

“Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.”

“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”

“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”

“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”

Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes

“Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.”

“A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.”

“Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.”

“What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.”