Quotes

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle" -- Winston Chuchill

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than responsible and wrong.” -- Winston Churchill​

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys" -- P.J. O'Rourke

"The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there's nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"If you dont read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed" -- Mark Twain​

"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin" -- Mark Twain

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." -- Paul Harvey​

"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back." -- Abraham Lincoln​

"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions." -- G.K. Chesterton

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help." -- Ronald Reagan​

Quotes

"Writing a book is like washing an elephant: no good place to begin
or end & it's hard to keep track of what you've already covered."
~Anonymous

“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
~F Scott Fitzgerald

"As a writer, the hardest part about having a teenager is all the
great material they give you & you can't use any of it."
~Mia Freedman

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
~Ray Bradbury

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win
by fearing to attempt. ~Shakespeare

Quotes

"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."
- Ben Johnson

"At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance and then hastily paints the bulls eye around the spot where it lands."
- Warren Buffett

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people."
- Orson Welles

"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."
- Seneca

Quotes

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- Franklin P. Jones

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
- Lao Tzu

"It is to a man's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel."
- Proverbs 20:3

"Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as ourselves."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."
- Aristotle

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
- Winston Churchill

"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."
- Oscar Levant

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
- Fred A. Allen

"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
- James M. Barrie

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
- Napoleon Hill

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
- Niels Bohr

"The understanding that underlies the right decision grows out of the clash and conflict of opinions and out of the serious consideration of competing alternatives."
- Peter Drucker

"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday."
- John Glenn

"As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated."
- Horace Mann