Peacocking Urban Quotes & Sayings

He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning. — Veronica Roth

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works. — Richard K. Morgan

It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it - who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet - that they can occasionally find one. And the wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time they don't. It's just that simple. — Charlie Munger

Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it. — Cornelius Vanderbilt

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor

In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions. — Rabbi Cohen