Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Sometimes you just have to find the majesty in yourself and other things to truly appreciate life.

It is said some lives are linked across time. Connected by an ancient calling that echoes through the ages. Destiny.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

Common sense is as rare as genius.