Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

 –Jesus (Matthew 6.19-21)_

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

 –Marie Curie

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

 –Rex Stout

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

 –Socrates

The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

 –John D. Rockefeller, Jr

When it comes to fantasy, women dream about unwinding, men about water pressure – bigger showers, more invigorating showers and multiple shower heads.

–Mary Reid, a VP for industrial design at Kohler

The vintage Valentino gown Julia Roberts wore onstage at the Oscars show may have been one-of-a- kind, but the multi-hued ostrich-feather boa around her neck in The Mexican is available to the masses – and is soaring out of stores. Maybe ostriches can fly.

–The New York Times

Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.

 –Ronald Reagan

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

 –Herman Melville

Respect for the vulnerability of human beings is a necessary part of telling the truth, because no truth will be wrested from a callous vision or callous handling.

 –Anais Nin

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

–Cicero (106-43 BC)

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern knowledge is that it is wrong. ... My answer to him was, “... when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”

 –Isaac Asimov

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

 –Winston Churchill

Finally you understand that the real motorcycle you’re working on is yourself.

 –Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

 

Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.

 –unknown

Australians are as ballsy and friendly and forthright as Americans, only upside down.

–Entertainment Weekly writer Lisa Schwarzbaum

I travel light; as light, / That is, as a man can travel who will / Still carry his body around because / Of its sentimental value.

 –Christopher Fry, The Lady’s Not for Burning

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