Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce
Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. – Ambrose Bierce
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. – Ambrose Bierce
Ive been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and Ive never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And Im not sure where it comes from, but I suspect its got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive. – Alan Greenspan