What's a Heavy Curse in a Fool's Pocket?

Image by bunchofpants via FlickrNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. – Jonathon Swift


What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. This same tendency, operating with increasing force, is observable in our civilization today, showing itself in every progressive community, and with greater intensity the more progressive the community. – Henry George


Golden shackles are far worse than iron ones. – Mohandas ghandhi


Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies;
Learn this, ye men of wealth – a heavy purse
In a fool’s pocket is a heavy curse.


To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art. – Confucius

Buy cheap, sell dear. – Thomas Lodge

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the vanquished were of course exterminated

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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough. – Quentin Crisp

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain. – Mark Twain

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. – Stendhal

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated. – Voltaire

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness. – Fran Lebowitz

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Where is it a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. – John Morley

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift

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