The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
Interpretation
Success may come late, but those who achieve it last often receive criticism for being slow.
This quote reflects on the nature of success and how it is perceived by others. While the individual who ultimately achieves success may find joy in it, they may also be unfairly labeled as dull or slow by those who value immediate outcomes over the long-term results, emphasizing the importance of patience and the subjective nature of success.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the value of perseverance and timing.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel.
You have to have a thick skin, yes. If you're going to do something as foolhardy as standup, you've got to be able to take it on the chin if someone has a go at you.
Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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