an occasional column for thought provoking words
| Thursday 21 August 2008 |
| In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005) |
| Wednesday 20 August 2008 |
| Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. Shirley Conran |
| Tuesday 19 August 2008 |
| Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of every friend and every foe. Alexander Pope |
| Monday 18 August 2008 |
| Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. Seneca |
| Sunday 17 August 2008 |
| Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day, And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday. Henry Carey |
| Saturday 16 August 2008 |
| There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw  |
| Friday 15 August 2008 |
| Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lingbergh |
| Thursday 14 August 2008 |
| There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity. Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986) |
| Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
| Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin |
| Tuesday 12 August 2008 |
| People just need brains. Amy McBride |
| Monday 11 August 2008 |
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. |
| Sunday 10 August 2008 |
| Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006) |
| Saturday 9 August 2008 |
| Action is the antidote to despair. Joan Baez |
| Friday 8 August 2008 |
| Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. Tallulah Bankhead |
| Thursday 7 August 2008 |
| Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith |
| Wednesday 6 August 2008 |
| Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. Margaret Miller |
| Tuesday 5 August 2008 |
| There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. Sophia Loren |
| Monday 4 August 2008 |
| Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end. Stephen Hawking |
| Sunday 3 August 2008 |
| No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith |
| Saturday 2 August 2008 |
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. |
| Friday 1 August 2008 |
| I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott |
| Thursday 31 July 2008 |
| If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. Judith Martin (Miss Manners) |
| Wednesday 30 July 2008 |
| It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them. Rose Macauley |
| Tuesday 29 July 2008 |
| Strike while your employer has a big contract. Anon |
| Monday 28 July 2008 |
| If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even third, place. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman Statesman and Orator On Oratory |
| Sunday 27 July 2008 |
| The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. Scott Adams |
| Saturday 26 July 2008 |
| My opinion of this remarkable man is, that he was purely a son of nature, to whom alone he owed nearly all that characterized him as an artist and a man. Warm in his affections, of deep feeling. and possessed of a vigourous imagination, with correct and penetrating observation, he needed little extraneous aid to make him what he became, the first engraver on wood that England has produced. Look at his tailpieces reader and say if you ever saw so much life represented before... John James Audubon of Thomas Bewick  |
| Friday 25 July 2008 |
Borrowed garments never fit well. |
| Thursday 24 July 2008 |
| I've been on a calendar, but never on time. Marilyn Monroe |
| Wednesday 23 July 2008 |
| Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil. Golda Meir |
| Tuesday 22 July 2008 |
| Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely Kay Lyons |
| Monday 21 July 2008 |
| Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. Mignon McLaughlin |
