Dictionary of Quotes

Quotes :

1. Paulus Jovius – books “They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.” ~Paulus Jovius (also known as Paolo Giovio, Italian Physician, Historian,)


2. "This budget is like an Enron budget —… "This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out." - Senator John Kerry


3. E. F. Schumacher – materialism “Insights of wisdom … enable us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactoriness of a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the neglect of the spiritual. Such a life necessarily sets man against man and nation against nation, because man’s needs are infinite and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.” ~E. F. Schumacher


4. "He who studies books alone will know how… "He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are." - Charles Caleb Colton