INFLUENCE

Related Subjects: Associates, Authority, Companionship, Environment, Example and Precept, Favor, Motive, Power

1. Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?—ROBERT BURTON,
   Anatomy of Melancholy
   

2. Nothing in human life is more to be lamented, than that a wise man should have so little influence.—HERODOTUS, Calliope
   

3. The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.—JOHN LYLY, Euphues
   

4. Men are not easily taken by frontal assault; it is only stratagem that can quickly knock them down. To be a blonde, pink, soft, and delicate, is to be a stratagem.—H. L. MENCKEN
   

5. Under the influence either of poverty or of wealth, workmen and their work are equally liable to degenerate.—PLATO, The Republic
   

6. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes,
   Tenets with books, and principles with times.—POPE, Moral Essays
   

7. Do you think, I am easier to be played on than a pipe?—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

8. O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV

9. The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instil ready-made opinions into his head.—LESLIE STEPHENS