Favorite quotes

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." : Sam Ewing

 

"Recessions are just times when the wealthy consolidate their wealth while telling the little people they need to make do with less and stop complaining about it. When we escape a recession, its always with more of the wealth in fewer hands and the average wage of the average worker having fallen sharply. Rich people love recessions."

 

Makes sense - not to mention the wealthy get the minions to work harder for less, or even nothing at all. Or now do the work of two (of the one who got fired), lest you be fired.

 

class warfare

 

"I am no more humble than my talents require." : Oscar Levant

 

"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." :Harriet Martineau

 

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it" : Seneca

 

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." : Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future." Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

If you would judge, understand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca