Soeder Basel Quotes & Sayings

Certain it is that work, worry, labor and trouble, form the lot of almost all men their whole life long. But if all wishes were fulfilled as soon as they arose, how would men occupy their lives? what would they do with their time? If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature. In — Arthur Schopenhauer

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me. — Henry Rollins

Everywhere the woman went she drew her little rainbow of happiness along with her — Janette Oke

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism ... — Ernest Renan

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen. — Lara Stone

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself. — Margaret Thatcher

Sixth graders had stopped asking "Now what?" and had started asking "So what?" She had not been sorry to retire when she did. — E.L. Konigsburg