It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day.
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
If the same family were always on the bottom, then you'd have big resentments. But if DuPonts go down and Pampered Chef up, [that's good]. That much churn makes people think the system is fairer. Buffett: We don't like churn now, but we liked it more 30-40 years ago.
When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
An actor is always looking for something. When your luck improves, trends change, you get one of those roles that do very well, sometimes even your worst work becomes a super success. So one can never predict what will happen tomorrow.
One day you're in. The next day you're out.
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.
The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.
