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“Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.”
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“I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.”
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“I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.”
Source : William Shirley, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1973). “Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760”
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“No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.”
Source : David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”
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“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.”
Source : "FPA Book of Quotations : A New Collection of Famous Sayings". Book by Franklin Pierce Adams, 1952.
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“Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.”
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“The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.”
Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee
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“Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll.”
