There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Popularity is generally an appeal to the people from the sentence given by men of sense against them.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.