"The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year."

“This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you.”

“Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.”

“Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!”

Source : Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Wallis (1857). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.143

“Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.”

“Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.”

Source : Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.295

“Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.”

Source : "The doughnut dimension" by Charles Handy, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2005.

“What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.”

“I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.”