“ Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort.
Joseph Schumpeter
“ We are overrun with Popes. From curates and governesses, who may claim a sort of professional standing, to parents and uncles and nursery maids and schoolteachers and wiseacres generally, there are scores of thousands of human insects groping through our darkness by the feeble phosphorescence of their own tails, yet ready at a moment’s notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject
G.B. Shaw
“ I sometimes think that we all die at twenty-five, and after that are nothing but walking corpses with gramophones inside
George Santayana
“ I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of
Montaigne
“ An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John Gardiner
“ He who has imagination without erudition has wings while he lacks legs
Joseph Joubert
“ I am afraid to tell you who I am because, if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it’s all that I have
John Powell
“ Devils can be drawn out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand or a mouth on a mouth
Tennessee Williams
“ If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well.
Lao-Tsu
“ I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers by to drop their unused minutes into it
Barnard Berenson
(When almost 90 yrs old)
“ Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Mom’s.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Nelson Algren
“ I’d rather earn 1% of a hundred people’s efforts than 100% of my own
John Paul Getty
“ There are two types of people who never amount to anything in this world: those who can NEVER do what they are told and those that can ONLY do what they are told
Einstein
“ Worrying is a non-creative form of imagination which is too often accepted as uncontrollable and normal
Alex F. Osborn
(Inventor of ‘Brainstorming’)
“ You can only talk to a hungry man in terms of bread
Ghandi