20c To F Quotes & Sayings

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe. — Nicholas Von Hoffman

So [in mathematics] we get to play and imagine whatever we want and make patterns and ask questions about them. But how do we answer these questions? It's not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do ... The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations, and that is hard work. — Paul Lockhart

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. — Kenneth L. Pike

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it. — Michel Houellebecq

As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both the multitude and the persons of refinement speak of it as happiness, and conceive 'the good life' or 'doing well' to be the same thing as 'being happy. — Aristotle.

We are fiddle, fork, and spoon,
We are dancing with the moon,
If you'd like to steal a kiss from us,
You'd better steal one soon! — Elizabeth Gilbert

I eat a catfish sandwich
with onions and red sauce
20c. (Havana 1953) — Allen Ginsberg

It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual. — Jacques Barzun

There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence. — Mark Batterson