the Theft of Your Home

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When your fortune increases, the columns of your house appear to be crooked. – Armenian proverb




A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe



Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. – Thomas Fuller



Every man is the architect of his own fortune. – Appius Claudius



The money you get from selling land never buys the same land back. – anonymous



The world’s best and safest real estate tax shelter – your own home.(?) - Chris Welles



Property is theft. – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Virtue is Not Hereditary

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. – Thomas Paine




The pursuit of novelty is one of the least original and most meretricious of aesthetic strategies. – Stanley kunitz



We think in generalities, but we live in detail. – Alfred North Whitehead



In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters as they are. – Gamaliel Bradford



Less is more.
God is in the details. – Mies van der Rohe



Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. – Paul Valery



People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. – Oliver Wendell Holmes