Use Quotes - Page 174

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements

The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end.

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.

Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the bus and are blended with it.

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves. It's just unclean. So if I go in a woman's house and see the toilet paper there, I'll explain this. And if she doesn't make the adjustment to baby wipes, I'll know she's not completely clean.

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.