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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]

Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]

Syrus (Publilius Syrus)

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. - George Washington,

George Washington

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.

Robert of Doncaste

What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.

Old Epitaph

As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.

Cyrus Augustus Bartol

Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew, And colour's with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night.

William Cullen Bryant

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Arthur Cayley

He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth, And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than 'twas worth; But as he got it freely, so He spent it frank and freely too: For saints themselves will sometimes be, Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.

Samuel Butler (1)

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.

Gail Parent

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.

Allan Beck

The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.

John Dryden

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

G. K. Chesterton

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

William Cowper

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Spanish Horace

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

George Bancroft

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

John Quincy Adams

"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.

Richard Bentley

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