Bankers Quote by Charles Caleb Colton Download Open image “Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.” — Charles Caleb Colton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bankers Expectations Heirs Hope Prodigals Young
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Hope is a virtue independently of its realisations; it is an intrinsic value, an end in itself, allied to courage and imagination, a positive… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
In my case, there are only two kinds of hope - Bob Hope and no hope. — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What I think is bugging this guy [Steven Lerner] is the belief that debt - forced debt upon middle-class people, students (i.e., student loans… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as… — Andrew Simms Copy Share Image
Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they… — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image