Watching Catastrophes from the Terrace

Image via WikipediaWealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. – Benjamin Franklin




A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world. – Mohammed



Only the brave deserve the fair, but only the rich, fat, cowardly merchants can afford same. – Chinese Proverb



Don’t try to die rich but live rich. – Thomas Bird Mosher



The privelede of the great is to see catastrophes from a terrace. – Jean Giradoux



The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house tthanyour means would entitle you to have. – Edward Clarke

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Nothing for Something

Image by mrtruffle via FlickrThe highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – St. Thomas Aquinas




When someone gets something for nothing. Someone else gets nothing for something. – anonymous



Someone has suggested that America’s greatest gifts to civilization are three: cornflakes, Kleenex, and credit. – Louis T. Benezet



When a merchant speaks of sheep he means the hide. – Swiss Proverb



No nation was ever ruined by trade. – Benjamin Franklin



Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. – Abraham Lincoln



Piracy, n: commerce without its folly-swaddles – just as God made it. – Ambrose Bierce

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There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. – Benjamin Franklin

We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without faults. – Thomas Fuller

Genius is little more than the facutly of perceiving in an unhabitual way. – William James

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. – C.W. Ceram

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. – Cesare Lombroso

The public is wonderfully tolerant. They forgive everything except genius. – Oscar Wilde

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destinations. – Louis Kronenberger

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