“ One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Bruce Lee
“ When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O’Rourke
“ Understand, we were not just selling motorized sticks. We were also teaching women how to never be submissive. A woman with a well-stocked toy drawer isn’t dependent on anyone and is unlikely to hurl herself at a lowlife just for nooky. Though I began my job on a lark, it became clear that being a sex-shop salesgirl is, in some way, a curiously feminist calling.
Confessions of a Sex-Shop Salesgirl, by Arianne Cohen
“ If you can’t get your kids to eat vegetables, why is it my job?
Jim Skinner, CEO of McDonald’s
“ The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time
Bertrand Russell
“ 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)
