Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
Paul Gauguin
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
David Lloyd George
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last longer.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.
The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
J. Paul Getty
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
My father said: You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Emma Goldman
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
I want freedom, the right to self expression, everybodys right to beautiful radiant things. Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world – prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Oliver Goldsmith
For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so.
But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
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