He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. – Benjamin Franklin Category: Rest, Leisure
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. – William Cowper Category: Rest, Leisure
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. – Chuck Palahniuk Category: good
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. – A. N. Wilson Category: Politics
Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected — for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected? – William Cowper Category: Trust
Luxury… corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. – Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762 Category: Prosperity