Quotes

A fool and his money are soon parted.

-Dr. John Bridges’ Defence of the Government of the Church of England, 1587

No-action relief is a mechanism that allows registrants to obtain certain assurances from the FTC when their conduct may touch upon a gray area of regulation, or even may be technically proscribed, but does not raise the policy concerns underlying a particular rule.

-Securities and Exchange Commission

I don’t believe in the no win scenario… I don’t like to lose.

-Admiral James T. Kirk

You never, almost never have a major brokerage house say the game’s over, guys duck. It doesn’t happen. The commercial imperative is overwhelming to stay bullish. That’s how you make money.

-Jeremy Grantham of GMO Investment “Bloomburg 1/6/22”

Look, what do you wanna do? Sit on your hands for three days and pray for Peak 37?

-Tom Schulman from “Medicine Man”

Mendacious

Given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth.

People who eat one other because of the famine are not cannibals. Cannibals are those who don’t want to redistribute the church’s gold to the starving

-Governmental poster from Socialist Russia

If you don’t talk with people that are opposed to your positions you know nothing about them and even less about yourself

-Christopher Hudgens

For the first time in 2,000 years the intellectuals are siding with the people who gave the hemlock to Socrates

-Julien Benda

The dose makes the poison. Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison

-Paracelsus

Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged

-Jeri Taylor

If they hate you enough they can find any legal grounds to fuck you

-Unknown

I wouldn’t trust a word that came out of his mouth even if his tongue was notarized

-Private author about Martin Sigillito