Mountford And Sons Quotes & Sayings

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. — Benjamin Disraeli

It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High. — William Mountford

Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, war. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have been cheated and betrayed. They have slaved and saved for nothing. Tod — Nathanael West

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy. — Antanas Mockus

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore. — Jeff Daniels

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe — Thomas Gilovich