This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
With money in your pocket, you are wise and handsome, and you sing well too.
Robert Edward Rubin, aka Eddy Rubin
Relying on politics for your sense of who you are greatly impedes your ability to remain true to yourself, your views, and your values.
When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse the process and begin trading money for time.
Oswald Spengler, fully Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler
Renunciation of world politics offers no protection from its consequences.
Consequences | Politics | World |
You cannot love money and your brethren at the same time.
Teresa of Avila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL
I believe that honor and money nearly always go together… Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
All human societies supplement politics with ethics; all of them to some degree are ordered by a moral code, if only honor among thieves.
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.
Appetite | Comfort | Fun | Health | Honor | Intelligence | Knowledge | Money | Peace | Pleasure | Quiet |
Jackie Gleason, born John Herbert Gleason
The greatest waste of money is to keep it.
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.