Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.
I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.
I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.