A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.

Will Rogers, December 31, 1933

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

John Donne

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

James A. Lovell

O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

Charles Dickens

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

Virginia Woolf

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

Stephen Hawking

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Diogenes

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Patti Smith

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

W. H. Auden

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

David Hume

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton