For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.

John Anderson

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Elbert Hubbard

You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.

Bill Withers

Go away...I'm alright.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Using your mind is a faster method to getting what you want. I mean, all you have to do is sit there. What could be easier?

Stephen Richards

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes

George MacDonald

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

Will Rogers

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

John Adams