The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. ^ Jean de la Bruyere
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.^ Bible
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.^ Plutarch
You may delay, but time will not.^ Unknown
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.^ Emperor Sigismund
I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.^ Eliot Spitzer
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.^ Francis Bacon Sr.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.^ Bible
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.^ Plutarch
You may delay, but time will not.^ Unknown
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.^ Emperor Sigismund
I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.^ Eliot Spitzer
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.^ Francis Bacon Sr.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
