Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

being cool

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. 70 wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. 30 more quotes from Walt Whitman

He who keeps his cool best wins. 15 quotes from Norman Cousins

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 9 more quotes from Satchel Paige

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets. 3 other wisdom & wit from Rupert Brooke

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds. 2 quotes from Stevie Ray Vaughan

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. 24 quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson

Good words cool more than cold water. 3 more quotes from John Ray

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. 3 more quotes from Lewis Thomas

Manners are love in a cool climate. 8 views from Quentin Crisp

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. 19 other quotes from Woodrow Wilson

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. 5 more quotes from Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Keep cool anger is not an argument. 12 other thoughts from Daniel Webster

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life. 2 quotes from Jacques Prevert

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. 7 other wisdom & wit from Langston Hughes