Two Thoughts (20 - 26 October)

In the Time of Harmony; The Joy of Life–Sunday by the Sea (1895 - 1896) | Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935)

Sunday, 20 October

Two thoughts from Mick Herron

“Those who write the rules rarely suffer their weight.”

“All the work’s done low on the food chain. Everyone else just has meetings.”

---

Monday, 21 October

Two thoughts from Rex Stout

“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”

“I don’t answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.”

---

Tuesday, 22 October

Two thoughts from Gian-Carlo Rota

"The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need."

"Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever."

---

Wednesday, 23 October

Two thoughts from Baltasar Castiglione

"Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace."

"Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great."

---

Thursday, 24 October

Two thoughts from Jean de La Bruyère

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”

“The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.”

---

Friday, 25 October

Two thoughts from Lord Chesterfield

"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least."

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it."

---

Saturday, 26 October

Two thoughts from Eric Ambler

“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.”

“The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one’s own.”

---

Follow Jim on Twitter for a daily dose of Two Thoughts!