Category: Quote of the Week

“When you think it’s too late is the best time to act.” – Korean Proverb

“When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing.” – Charles Prince, CEO of Citigroup, as quoted in The Financial Times, July 9, 2007

"In a mature society, civil servant is semantically equal to civil master." – Robert A. Heinlein

"If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." – Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." – Letter from the Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina

"I fully understand the primary function of guns in the human condition: to protect oneself against the aggression of others. If other people are going to use them for the purpose of aggression, why, that’s all the more reason for me to own one (or in my case, considerably more than one)" – Kim du Toit

“When it all comes down, the last man standing is going to be standing there in shorts and sneakers [armed] with a ’98 Mauser, and all the ninja-looking guys belly up at his feet – with all their cool gear.” – Louis Awerbuck

"Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand." – Edward Everett Hale

"[T]he derivatives business is like hell–easy to enter and almost impossible to exit." – Warren Buffett

"It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the …

“I cannot guarantee that you will not get hurt or killed whether you follow my advice or not. Just keep in mind that people who never lifted anything that could be classified as ‘heavy’ got hernias from coughing and died of a stroke when they strained on a toilet. As someone smart said, fear of doing things does not prevent you from dying, only from living.” – Pavel Tsatsouline

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle." – President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait." – G. K. Chesterton

"There is no glory in practice, But without practice there is no glory." – Anonymous

“Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.” – Lou Holtz