Bailouts and Begging

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

— Anatole France


Klipstein’s Third Law of General Engineering

Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.

— Applied Murphology


Running the Country III

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

— H. L. Menken


Running the Country II

If I wished to put a curse on a nation, I would invoke the gods to decree that it be governed by those who consider themselves to be the only true patriots in it.

— Sydney J. Harris


Running the Country

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

— George Burns


Discovery

Doubt is the father of discovery.

— Galileo

Galileo paid a heavy price for his doubt. It is inspiring to know that he held to its efficacy.


Learning Life’s Lessons

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

— Søren Kierkegaard


There is Nothing Worse Than Nothing

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.

— Richard Bach


The Death of Ponzi Schemes

So Social Security will be broke in seven years. First Bernie Madoff, now this. It’s like Ponzi schemes don’t even work anymore.

- Bill Muse, Top 5 Rumination


Nobel Legacy

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

— George Bernard Shaw


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