"Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it."

-- Jeremy Bentham

#Support Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #Asylums Quotes

“The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people.”
“Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.”
“I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.”

Source : "Kirsty Gallacher: The last five things I bought" by Dinah Turner, www.mirror.co.uk. April 17, 2012.
“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”
“If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.”
“Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.”
“A diary means yes indeed.”
“It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.”

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