A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.
—Common Proverb
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
—Robert Frost (American Poet)
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
—Henry Kissinger (American Diplomat)
People say I’m around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn’t have helped me if I wasn’t physically fit.
—Jimmy Connors (American Tennis Player)
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
—Richard Steele (Irish Writer, Journalist)
One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.
—Etty Hillesum (Jewish Diarist)
Considering the downside is the single most important thing an investor must do. This task must be dealt with before any consideration can be made for gains. The problem is that people nowadays think they’re pretty smart because they can do something quite rapidly. You can make the horse gallop. But are you on the right path? Can you see where you’re going?
—Irving Kahn (American Investor)
Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking – the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one’s living in – it’s a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
—Woody Allen (American Film Actor, Director)
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
—Arthur Ashe (American Tennis Player)
Courage is the most important of all the virtues … One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
—Maya Angelou (American Poet)
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
—William Arthur Ward (American Author)
Beware of the man of one book.
—Latin Proverb
Never talk rich, never talk poor, never talk money.
—Clementine Churchill (British Humanitarian)