Men sometimes stumble into vast fortunes, despite manifest incompetence, bad character, and borderline imbecility. Never give up.
Jun 012015
You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Men sometimes stumble into vast fortunes, despite manifest incompetence, bad character, and borderline imbecility. Never give up.
Robes always dignify begging — saffron for the Buddhist monk, black for the college president.
You used to have to pay people to wear sandwich boards.
A few bucks: In American parlance, a sum either a great deal more or a great deal less than you wish to represent.
It’s all fun and games until someone gets paid.
A thing got rid of is a joy forever.
Success, n. A not entirely unbroken record of failure.
To be paid for opinions corrupts; and to be paid for particular opinions corrupts absolutely.
Better a handout than a sermon, and better neither than both.
The joy of money lies less in what one does than in what one might do.