An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. -- Don Marquis
His mind is open; yes, it is so open that nothing is retained; ideas simply pass though him. -- Francis Herbert Bradley
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains. --Jean Jacques Rousseau
Life is a lemon and I want my money back. -- Meatloaf
A Parable
"Work as if you don't need the money,
Love as if you've never been hurt before,
and Dance as if no one is watching."
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions. He had money as well. -- Margaret Thatcher
Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars. -- Anonymous
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. -- H.L. Munchkin
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. -- Jackie Mason
"Now I will believe that there are unicorns...." - Sebastian- Act III Scene III "The Tempest" Shakespeare
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower: "Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."
Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis to a group of handicapped people in wheel chairs: "And now, will y'all stand and be recognized?"
A. C. Greene: "Dallas salutes a person who can buy a piece of art, but not a person who can create one."
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower when told that Texas Governor Bill Clements had been studying Spanish: "Oh good. Now he'll be bi-ignorant."
Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis defending himself against the charge that he would personally profit from a bill he had introduced: "I'd just make a little bit of money, I wouldn't make a whole lot."
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower discussing President George Bush's policies: "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drillin' rights on that man's head."
Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis during a budget hearing: "I move we recess to go outside and throw up."
Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis: "There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind."
Don Rottenberg: "There are still places where people think that the function of the media is to provide information."
