It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.


Pearl Zhu

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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our count...
PEARL BUCK
Love dies only when growth stops.
PEARL BUCK
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
PEARL BUCK
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite...
PEARL BUCK
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichev...
PEARL BAILEY
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
PEARL BAILEY
Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no lo...
PEARL BAILEY
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get...
PEARL BUCK
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhuman...
PEARL BUCK
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
PEARL BAILEY
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
PEARL BUCK
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
PEARL BUCK
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by t...
PEARL BUCK
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
PEARL BUCK
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.
PEARL BAILEY
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is...
PEARL BUCK
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
PEARL BUCK
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never d...
PEARL BUCK
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, ca...
PEARL BUCK
...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
PEARL CLEAGE
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
PEARL BUCK