quotes about money and power

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay



I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball



It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Bill Watterson



No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow



Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. ~Willaim Penn



America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949



Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ~Author Unknown



A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb



The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs less. ~Brendan Francis, Playboy, 1985



Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino



In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ~Edward Hoagland



But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life, and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. ~Jean de la Bruyere



Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. ~Sam Abbel



Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. ~Walter Raleigh, History of the World



Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. ~Samuel Johnson



Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?" ~Author Unknown



A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988



The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it. ~Author Unknown



Silence is more musical than any song. ~Christina Rossetti