Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"
If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure -- we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
Contraries are cured by contraries.
