Dry Quote by Brenda Ueland

Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing…

— P. T. Barnum

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which…

— Emmanuel Lévinas

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others,…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It…

— Morarji Desai

The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may…

— Anders Chydenius

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious,…

— John F. Kennedy

“The mass of society is made up of morbid thinkers, and miserable workers. Now it is only by labour that thought can be made…

— John Ruskin

“A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what…

— Dan Fagin

“There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the leisure they they have for…

— Anonymous

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

“In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial, a temporary…

— Cory Bernardi