"The covetous man is always poor."

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Claudius Claudianus

#Men Quotes #Greed Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.”
“We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.”
“They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parentsÃ¢Â€Â™ signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways.”

Source : Vern Rutsala (2004). “A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)
“I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It's all too much.”

Source : "America Is Discussing: Is Today’s Youth a Lost Generation?" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.
“It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.”
“These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.”
“In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.”
“When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.”

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