Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything. Sivananda on wealth
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is. B.F. Skinner on decision
Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals have always recognized the debt they owe to radicals, whose existence permits liberals to push further than they would otherwise have dared, all the while posing as compromisers and mediators. Radicals, however, have been somewhat less sensible of their debt to liberals, partly because of the rather single-minded discipline radicals are almost forced to maintain, plagued as they always are by liberal backsliding and timidity on the one hand and various forms of self-destructiveness and romantic posing on the other.... Liberal reforms and radical change are thus complementary rather than antagonistic. Together they make it possible continually to test the limits of what can be done. Liberals never know whether the door is unlocked because they are afraid to try it. Radicals, on the other hand, miss many opportunities for small advances because they are unwilling to settle for so little. Phillip Slater on change
Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. Adam Smith on labor
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith on science
A person over age 65 who drinks says that his doctor recommends it. Bob Smith on age
If at first you don't succeed, you must be doing something wrong. Charles Merrill Smith on success
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. Logan P. Smith on affection
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. Syndey Smith on marriage
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Ralph W. Sockman on courage
If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. Socrates on argument
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates on beauty
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates on honesty
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. Socrates on immortality
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates on life
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Socrates on marriage
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Ambrose Bierce on ability
Age that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit. Ambrose Bierce on age
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce on beauty