Writing, Wealth, Go For It, Age Quotations

WRITING
Dorothy Parker
If you’re going to write, don’t pretend to write down. It’s going to be the best thing you can do, and it’s the fact that it’s the best you can do that kills you.

WEALTH
John Wicker
Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

GO FOR IT
Jonathan Winters
I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

AGE
Oscar Wilde
To get back one’s youth, one merely has to repeat one’s follies.

Writing, Government, Degradation, Age Quotes

WRITING
William Somerset Maugham
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

GOVERNMENT
Sheldon Richman
The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

DEGRADATION
Marvin Lee Minsky
Too much suffering diminishes us by restricting the complexities that constitute our very selves. It must be the same for pleasure as well.

AGE
Cesare Pavese
Every man over thirty identifies his youth with the worst fault he thinks he has discovered in himself.

Writing, Democracy, Calling, Children

WRITING
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

DEMOCRACY
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody’s equal.

CALLING
Taro Gold
Strive to achieve whatever you think you cannot, for it is on the path toward your impossible dream that you will find what you truly seek.

CHILDREN
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.