Quotes

The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-Ian Fleming

Everytime you hear EBITDA substitute it with bullshit earnings.

-Charlie Munger

That’s L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

-Eva Mendes

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

-Paul Valéry

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

-George Orwell

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

-Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

-Lord Acton

If you are going to permit Cesar Augustus you have to be ready for Caligula.

-Max Brooks

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

-Lord Acton

A solution shall not another problem create.

-Tom Burtonwood

Never mistake motion for action.

-Ernest Hemingway

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgement is to be a slave, not a free man, It is from this fact that the liberal arts acquire their name

-Mortimer Adler