Is Wisdom Just the Dying of Temptation

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You understand human nature when you are never surprised by anything it does. – Vernon Howard

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the result of thought and resolution. – Anthony Trollope

Great men are not always wise. – Bible

The wise man is satisfied with nothing. – William Godwin

Altiloquence, n. pompous speech. – Mrs. Byrnes Dictionary

You just never learn anything when you’re talking. – Jeffrey G. Allen

Experience shows over and over again that there is nothing which men have less power over than the tongue. – Baruch Spinoza

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Drinking Tea with a Fork

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry, but money answereth all things. – Bible – Ecclesiastes

A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork. – Chinese proverb

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May. – Anthony Trollope

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. – thomas Shadwell

Learn to pause – or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. – Doug King

It is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely. – Julius Rosenwald

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing. – Thomas Fuller

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The Last Refuge of Scoundrels

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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. – W. Bourke Cockran

We need to revise the old saying to read, hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. – Milton friedman

Guidelines for Bureaucrat: (1) When in charge ponder. (2) When in trouble delegate. (3) When in doubt mumble. – James H. Boren

In a bureaucratic system, increase in expenditure will be matched by fall in production. – Max Gammon

Issues are the last refuges of scoundrels. – Edmund G. Brown, Jr.

It is because we put up with bad things that hotelkeepers continue to give them to us. – Anthony Trollope

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. – Michael Main

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Darkly Comical Quotes

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Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things and, second, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. – Colton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do the more he is able to accomplish. – Sir Thomas Buxton

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. – W. D. Howells

We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in the world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him. – Thomas Hughes

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. – E. H. Harriman

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded and labor starves. – Daniel Webster

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. – Anthony Trollope

A quiet conscience makes one so serene. – Byron