By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.^ Joseph Collins
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.^ Richard Alfred Milliken Millikin
It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.^ Robert E. Lee
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.^ Ludwig von Mises
Jests that give pains are no jests.^ Miguel de Cervantes
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.^ Nicholas Murray Butler
A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]^ Pierre Corneille
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.^ Edgar R. Fiedler
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.^ Unknown
He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow.^ John Milton
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.^ Lynda Barry
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her^ Helen Rowland
Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.^ Rita Mae Brown
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.^ Sir Walter Scott
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.^ Madonna
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.^ Jonathan Swift
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.^ Terence Joseph McSwiney M.P.
We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.^ Anon.
A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].^ John Heywood
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.^ Jean Baptiste Racine
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.^ Richard Alfred Milliken Millikin
It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.^ Robert E. Lee
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.^ Ludwig von Mises
Jests that give pains are no jests.^ Miguel de Cervantes
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.^ Nicholas Murray Butler
A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]^ Pierre Corneille
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.^ Edgar R. Fiedler
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.^ Unknown
He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow.^ John Milton
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.^ Lynda Barry
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her^ Helen Rowland
Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.^ Rita Mae Brown
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.^ Sir Walter Scott
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.^ Madonna
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.^ Jonathan Swift
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.^ Terence Joseph McSwiney M.P.
We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.^ Anon.
A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].^ John Heywood
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.^ Jean Baptiste Racine
