Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has a >>

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of fa >>

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opport >>

Quotations about Example

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good exam >>

Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of >>

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. >>

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric