Quotes

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

—Joan Didion, 2005

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1774

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

—William Wycherley, 1675

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

—Lord Byron, 1813

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

The only equals are those who are equally rich.

—Burundian proverb

Profit is profit even in Mecca.

—Nigerian proverb

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

A jest breaks no bones.

—Samuel Johnson, 1781

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