Rudite Bumane Quotes & Sayings

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Come again? Am I saying that your four-dollar-a-day coffee habit is going to cost you $51,833.79 in twenty years? Yes, I am. Did you know that every dollar you spend today, no matter where you spend it, is costing you nearly five dollars in only twenty years (and ten dollars in thirty years)? That's because if you took a dollar and invested it at 8 percent, in twenty years, that dollar would be worth almost five. Every time you spend a buck today, it's like taking five dollars out of your future pocket. — Darren Hardy

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth. — Maira Kalman

This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass. — Alan Bradley

I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty. — Maggie Nelson

Each instant of life is a step toward death. — Pierre Corneille