I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

William Shakespeare · King Henry IV, Part II (1598), I, ii

We are in God’s hand.

William Shakespeare · King Henry V (1598–1599), III, vi

Truth hath a quiet breast.

William Shakespeare · King Richard II (1595), I, iii

Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest (1611–1612), V, i This thing of darkness I

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

Paul A. Samuelson · Economics (1973), ch. 40

The wrong way is to fail to make the utmost provision for amortisation which prudence allows, to aggravate the burden of the debts by fresh borrowings, to live from hand to mouth and from year to year, and to exclaim with Louis XV: “After me, the deluge!”

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 11 April 1927

“I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.”

“We are in God’s hand.”

“Truth hath a quiet breast.”

“Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

“Man does not live by GNP alone.”

“The wrong way is to fail to make the utmost provision for amortisation which prudence allows, to aggravate the burden of the debts by fresh borrowings, to live from hand to mouth and from year to year, and to exclaim with Louis XV: “After me, the deluge!””

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