"Leave all hope, ye that enter." Dante Alighieri

"Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath." Jonathan Swift

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater." Albert Einstein

"What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?" J.M. Barrie

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time." Willem de Kooning

"We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence, I know not." John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1774

"The most important thing to be said about awards is that Mozart never got one." Anonymous

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." William Blake

"They can do all, because they believe they can." Virgil

"If you love your job, you will never work another day in your life." Confucius

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?" Stanislaw Lem

"Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system." Al Capone

"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." G. Gordon Liddy

"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies." Woody Allen

"Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this." Gustave Flaubert

"The way to make money is to get, if you can, a monopoly for yourself." Aristotle

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Adam Smith

"The gods help them that help themselves." Aesop

"Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world." Dave Barry

"When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name--He marks--not that you won or lost--but how you played the game." Grantland Rice

"Nice guys finish last." Leo Durocher

"It's not whether you win or lose, or how you play the game. It's how you look." Gen Xer

"Trust everybody, but cut the cards." Finley Peter Dunne

"There have been two geniuses, Shakespeare and Willie Mays." Wise Person

"Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings." George F. Will

"The game is up." Shakespeare

"I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde." Patricia Neill

"It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window." Raymond Chandler

"Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers." Fran Lebowitz

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." Kahlil Gibran

"Gentlemen prefer blondes...but gentlemen marry brunettes." Anita Loos

"A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one." Lycurgus

"Only God, my dear, could love you for yourself alone and not your yellow hair." W.B. Yeats

"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" Lily Tomlin

"Just before marriage the bride reassures herself: 'He will change,' just as the groom murmurs: 'She will never change.' Both will be severely disappointed." William Lewis

"The welfare of the people is the chief law." Cicero

"Remota itaque iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia." St. Augustine

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury." Sir Alex Fraser Tyler (1742-1813)

"I alone am here the representative of the people." Napoleon Bonaparte

"So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism." E. M. Forster

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." Anatole France

"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant..." Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

"The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie." Joseph Schumpeter

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Shakespeare's Hamlet

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." Alfred Adler

"People pay a very high price when they insist on being right. Frankly, I can't afford it." C. Richard Winn

"Why does public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? Why do I so often want to cry at what public figures, the press, and television commentators say about economic affairs?" Robert M. Solow, 1987 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics

"The free enterprise system is absolutely too important to be left to the voluntary action of the marketplace." Florida Congressman Richard Kelly, 1979

"Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular." Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

"Tariff: A scale of taxes imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer." Ambrose Pierce

"The pricing system--How order is produced from freedom of choice?--is a scientific mystery as deep, fundamental, and inspiring as that of the expanding universe or the forces that bind matter." Vernon L. Smith

"No nation was ever ruined by trade." Benjamin Franklin

"Procter & Gamble has a world-class global research and development organization, with over 7,500 scientists working in 22 research centers in 12 countries around the world. This includes 1,250 Ph.D. scientists. For perspective, this is larger than the combined science faculties of Harvard, Stanford and MIT." Proctor & Gamble web site

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." Yogi Berra

"The rich are different from the rest of us." F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Are the rich different? Yes, they have more money." Ernest Hemingway

"Different? Oh yes. The rich have those divine vegetables."  Truman Capote

"I've been rich, and I've been poor, and Honey, rich is better." Sophie Tucker

Octavius: "I believe most intensely in the dignity of labor." The chauffeur: "That's because you have never done any." George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act II

"The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it." Sitting Bull

"Can one desire too much of a good thing?" Shakespeare

"In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope." Charles Revson, Founder of Revlon

"What profit does man have for all his labor that he toils under the sun?" Ecclesiastes (1:3)

"No good deed ever goes unpunished." Claire Booth Luce

"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities... Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." Lord Acton

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction in a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new." Niccolo Machiavelli, II Principe 1513

"I don't trust him. We're friends." Bertolt Brecht

"If a loose monetary policy and rapid asset price inflation were the route to economic prosperity, Argentina would be he richest country in the world by now." Albert Edwards

"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." John Maynard Keynes

"The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement," Ann Landers

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking." Will Rogers

"You want to know the art of living my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering." Henri F. Amiel

"The meaning of life is that it stops." Franz Kafka

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy." Albert Einstein

"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use silence, exile and cunning." James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"She considered what he asked of her, and in that sweet moment the princess kissed the little frog prince. Nothing will ever be the same again." True Believer

"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love." Reinhold Niebhur

"Now there abidith these three, faith, hope and love, and the greatest of them all is love." St. Paul

"It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all." Groucho Marx

"He who hesitates is last." Mae West

"When it comes to making love, a girl can always listen so much faster than a man can talk." Helen Rowland

"I married beneath me. All women do." Lady Nancy Astor

"No doubt exists that all women are crazy, it's only a question of degree." W.C. Fields

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." Tallulah Bankhead

"I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not. It took me years to find out." J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?" Dick Cavett

"All ...men have their price." -- Sir Robert Walpole.

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde

"There is no absolute knowledge....All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility." J. Bronowski

"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do." Jean Piaget

"If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer." Yogi Berra

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." James Thurber

"Correlation may not cause causation, but I find that they often occur together." Mike

"I only ask for information." Charles Dickens

"I am bound not to please thee with my answers." Shakespeare

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know." Mark Twain

"It is a great nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work. It would be fine if we could swallow the powder of profitable information made palatable by the jam of fiction." W. Somerset Maugham

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance." Charlie McCarthy

"Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future." Niels Bohr

"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's." Will Rogers

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein

"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." Mahatma Gandhi

"It is hardly possible to overrate the value...of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar... Such communication has always been...one of the primary sources of progress." John Stuart Mill

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big." George Carlin

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." Will Rogers

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative." W.S. Gilbert

"We're not in Kansas any more, Toto." Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz
"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop." Lewis Carroll from Alice in Wonderland

"All's well that ends well." Shakespeare

"Hello, I must be going." Groucho Marx