1955 in History
| Births in 1955 | Deaths in 1955 |
| Bill Gates | October 28 |
| Steve Jobs | February 24 |
| Albert Einstein | December 23 |
| Dale Carnegie | November 1 |
| James Dean | September 30 |
| Quotes in 1955 |
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start to go right they often go on getting better and better. Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use?
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In the places I go there are things that I see Oh the things you can find, if you don't stay behind!
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Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. Still round the corner there may wait, It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them. Fair speech may hide a foul heart. I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself. The world has changed.
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression.
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Life is important. There's nothing else to hold on onto. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Time goes by so fast. Nothing can outrun it. Death commences too early - almost before you're half acquainted with life - you meet the other...
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The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.
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Well done is better than well said.
