Buck Merrill Quotes & Sayings

Scandal was an antihistamine. — Kathy Hepinstall

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. — Jomo Kenyatta

Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross. — T. B. Joshua

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes. — Jerzy Vetulani

Destruction is also creation. — Marcel Duchamp

Work to make a living; serve to make a life. — Will Rogers

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening. — Steve Jobs

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish? — Thomas Gray

My grandfather was a railroad brakeman, sixty years with the D&H. I'd sit on his lap when I was little, I remember, at the upstairs apartment on Watkins Avenue in Oneonta overlooking the tracks, and we'd look out at the yard together and watch the trains hooking up, and he'd pull his gold watch out of his vest pocket and squint at the dial, a gold pocket watch, and the bulging surface of the watch case was all scritch-scratched, etched with tiny soft lines, hundreds of tiny scratches, interlaced. And then he'd check the yard, my Grandpa, to see if the trains were running on time. In those days there was a rhythm to everything, there was an order to things, but now we're riding a runaway train that's carrying us all away to that final night where nothing is remembered and nothing matters. — Donald O'Donovan

Magnificent opportunity is often obscured by a humble veil ... — Simon Boylan

Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study. — Primo Levi

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food. — Dwight Yoakam

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that. — Charlie Munger

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour. — Ben Bernanke