Category: Quotations

Talk doesn’t cook rice.Chinese proverb

If you’re short of trouble, get a goat.Finnish Proverb

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.Thomas A. Edison

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.Robert Louis Stevenson

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.Logan Pearsall SmithThis quote was the lead to Lewis H. Lapham’s editorial in the May issue of Harper’s on how we are inconsistent in punishing…

People who make the biggest mistakes are often the holiest.Mary Kassan

The serotonin theory of depression is comparable to the masturbatory theory of insanity.  Both have been depletion theories, both have survived in spite of the evidence, both contain an implicit message as to what people ought to do. In the case of these myths, the key question is whose interests are being served by a…