It is better to receive than to give.
Anonymous
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mastery often passes for egoism.
Goethe
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favours.
La Rochfoucauld
Never have children. Only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take of themselves.
Dorothy Parker
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
The Duke of Windsor
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Tsa Tsa Gabor
The happiest time in anybody’s life is just after the first divorce.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Let’s have some new clichés.
Samuel Goldwyn
Here’s my contribution:…
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes…sort of like Hannaka/XCmas…this ought to lead to a lively discussion about the complaints of Ghandhi…
— Murray Edelman (1919-2001)
What a great list! I have three Xmas dinners coming up and this should help me get through them.
You can’t get there from here.
Anonymous Irish direction.
Who knew Galbraith had a sense of humour?
I did. I shook his hand at Couch and he laughed.
Hmmm…eric…I was at that couch.. .it was excellent.
Later on, Patrick Gossage and i spent a week with him and we learned a lot.
My Christmas dinners are over – so how can I use these wise sayings? Yesterday we were at a Christmas dinner with some people who have family in Osnabruck. What did we talk about? The Westfalian peace treaty that ended the 30 years war. You can see, the day was not wasted.