Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.

Medard Boss

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace

Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the huddled towers, Over a somnolent whisper of loves and hates, The slow wind flows, drearily streams and falls, With a mournful sound down rain-dark walls.

Conrad Aiken

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Scott Alexander

The sun got confused about day

Steven Wright

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

Zina Garrison

The joy is still there when I see Sean. He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all his things. But he is my biggest pride.

John Lennon

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Moli

If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Thomas Kempis, The Imitation of