S.G. Browne Quotes
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.
You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.
It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.
And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.
A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.
In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.
All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.
