"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Ideas Quotes #Leisure Quotes #Rich Quotes

“What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.”

Source : Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.6, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The unfinished is nothing.”
“Real beauty is created when you are feeling good inside, whether that means being healthy, feeling confident or just wearing your favorite scent.”
“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.”
“In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.”
“The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.”
“A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.”
“[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.”

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