“It is better to play for nothing than to work for nothing.”
Adam Smith
“It is a trite but true observation that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.”
Henry Fielding in Joseph Andrews (1742)
“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.” Yogi Berra according to rinkworks.com/said/yogiberra.shtml
“The Star led the Wise Men where? To a palace? No, to a stable. The vision: a star. The reality: a stable. Life is a mixture of star and stable; glory and grime.”
Frank Capra The Name Above the Title
“Laughter evaporates from the lab.”
Dr. Robert R. Provone in Laughter: A Scientific Investigation, quoted by Nathan Greenfield in British Columbia Report April 30, 2001
“You must hand over the world to those who believe the world is workable.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Return to Religion” in The Well and the Shallows, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #7 (June-July 2007)
“And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?” Benjamin Franklin, “Motion for Prayers in the Constitutional Convention” June 28, 1787, in The Patriot Post “Founders’ Quote Daily” April 27, 2007
“The oldest rule in economics, [U.S.] CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said on Tuesday, is ‘we cannot do everything.’”
Marcus Gee in Globe & Mail August 28 2003.