Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. ”

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ”

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. ”

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ”

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. ”

I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state. ”

It is imperative that state and local jurisdictions not scrimp on investing in law enforcement. ”

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate. ”

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing. ”

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal. ”