1593 Plague Quotes & Sayings

The notion of mental accounts is absent in traditional economic theory, which holds that wealth in general, and money in particular, should be fungible: That is, $100 in roulette winnings, $100 in salary, and a $100 tax refund should have the same significance and value to you, since each C-note could buy the same number of downloads from iTunes or the same number of burgers at McDonald's. Likewise, $100 kept under the mattress should invoke the same feelings or sense of wealth as $100 in a bank account or $100 in U.S. Treasury securities (ignoring the fact that money in the bank, or in T-bills, is safer than cash under the bed). If money and wealth are fungible, there should be no difference in the way we spend gambling winnings or salary. — Gary Belsky

Wizard's work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards. — Lita Burke

When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful. It isn't until the fifth stage of grief that the memories of them stop hurting as much; when the recollections become positive. When you stop thinking about the person's death, and remember all of the wonderful things about their life. — Colleen Hoover

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once. — T. S. Eliot

I find nothing more frightening than a man trying to do what he has decided is important. Very little in the world has ever gone astray - at least on a grand scale - because a person decided to be frivolous — Brandon Sanderson

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped. — Mark Tobey

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind. — Otto Rank

You cannot teach a person anything who does not want to learn. — Jeffrey Fry