The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]
An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]
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,
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
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.
What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
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.
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.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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.
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.
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.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
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.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
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.
"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.