The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

Bernard Williams

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Richard Attenborough

And then, just as quickly, the clouds returned, leaving us to walk by faith, not by sight.

Sibella Giorello

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

Renata Adler

Many people have died for what they believe... the real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Dale Carnegie

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Don Herold

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

Mark Twain

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

Sarah Zettel

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

Ted Nugent

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Mark Twain