"Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Conde Lucanor, 1922.

Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena

#Men Quotes #Advice Quotes #Hazards Quotes

“Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years.”
“Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050”

Source : "Rio+20: Unilever CEO on the need to battle on to save the world" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.
“Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.”
“It's not my fault if reality is Marxist”
“I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.”

Source : "Interview: The Host & Mother Writer/Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 15, 2010.
“Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.”
“The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.”
“I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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