FastSaying

Lawmakers who interfere with commerce and the normal creation of jobs in an economy run the risk of doing harm rather than good. Unintended consequences from regulating or legislating to achieve a goal can occur and cause havoc in the markets or an economy.


Mark Skousen

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS IN A SITUATION WHEREBY ONE IS TREATING OR FIGHTING AN ILLNESS OR DISEASE WITHOUT ELIMINATING THE CAU...
ALALE ANTHONY If you do both of those at the same time in an economy that is already contracting, you do run a ser...
JEFFREY YOUNG It is harder to achieve a balanced life in the year 2001 than it was in the year 1991, ... Ten years...
ROBERT REICH Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people...
JOHN KEY Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Sen...
AL FRANKEN We need common-sense solutions to this problem that won't destroy our economy. Any measures that fai...
WILLIAM KOVACS There is no more precious currency than the unfettered liberty to explore while engaged in an "Idea ...
A.E. SAMAAN From the beginning of the Republic, lawmakers have interacted with people who lobby. Either you abid...
SEAN SPICER The Fed chair doesn't matter a lot to the average person in normal times. He matters an awful lot wh...
MARK ZANDI Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce wi...
MARTIN SELIGMAN There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS One of the things you try to achieve in a buyout is an economy of scale.
ED FEIGENBAUM They're very good numbers ... most of the growth of the economy over the coming year will come from ...
JOHN EDWARDS Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or ...
PHILIP HAMMOND Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficien...
VIKRANT PARSAI Weather is one of the most important factors in the economy. It's clear from the example of Russia's...
ILYA YEFIMCHUK And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we r...
ELIZABETH WARREN Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there.
MURRAY I. MESZAROS We analyzed the market in Puerto Rico. Passengers want an easier, economy option rather than flying ...
JOSE NIEVES The second rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox b...
TERRY GOODKIND Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I'm the one who can make an economy grow. All he knows how to do is chase jobs away.
FELIPE CALDERON In terms of business growth and economic development - there are really two ways to develop a strong...
CURT NICHOLS You won't find an answer on how to run a government, traditional or modern, or how to run the econom...
FRED HALLIDAY Shopping for one is more expensive than buying in bulk. So, for example, instead of buying an apple ...
KARLA FITZHUGH In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stabl...
BABA KALYANI Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. If we don't buy a billion iPads, three-hundred million people will die of starvation. That's how the...
JUSTIN ALBERT PECOT III An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they canno...
WENDELL BERRY Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of d...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN There are a lot of smart people, such as scientists and researchers, in Michigan without jobs that n...
BARRY CARGILL Investors are looking past those challenges and seeing an economy that's still got a good growth rat...
JOE BATTIPAGLIA Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE Islam is not the basis for social, economic or political order. Islam doesn't have the answer of how...
FRED HALLIDAY ...In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that ...
ALAN GREENSPAN The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doi...
BRIAN TRACY We have gotten stuck half-way in our transition from the planned and command economy to a normal mar...
BORIS YELTSIN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
FRANCINE RIVERS [Hogan also likes Intel for a position in the semiconductor industry.] Intel we like because semicon...
ART HOGAN Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United S...
JOHN HOEVEN Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dear...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced.
“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly...
RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ...
RICK RIORDAN all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates...
PLATO The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people ach...
KOFI ANNAN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand ...
HALEY BARBOUR When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy...
HENRY PAULSON We believe that are some unintended consequences of the ruling and we think there are better ways to...
CHARLIE SCHROCK the attitude of the judiciary to (young hackers) must change; it must be 'that guy can cause havoc t...
WILLIAM MORRIS The overall global economy is robust, and there's quite good demand from many end-markets.
TIM ALBRECHT The IRGC's tentacles are well hidden in the Iranian economy, making the risk of becoming entangl...
MIKE POMPEO Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties...
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN Nobody can guarantee jobs and security in a market based economy,
ALAN MULALLY Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Things are looking real good for 2006. The economy is looking up. We have 29 projects going on now t...
MARK POPE The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, oft...
ALAN GREENSPAN Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”
“Tempting,” ...
RICK RIORDAN Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, someb...
RON JOHNSON It's a steady, rather than explosive, expansion in the economy with the employment and wage data gra...
GEOFF LEWIS The core issue in monotheism is righteousness/wickedness.
Righteous/wicked qualifies a person ...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
BARRY RITHOLTZ Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The economy is generally chugging along. From the consumers' perspective, jobs remain an important i...
DELOS SMITH There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil ...
EVANGELINE LILLY Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad an...
JOHN B. LARSON In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
LEARNED HAND She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING In order for us to have jobs, in order to have a tax base, commerce, to have an economy work, we've ...
GARY GILOT The economy is generating plenty of jobs -- that's good news.
BERNARD BAUMOHL The risk is that the dollar becomes stronger if there is any hint that the economy remains buoyant a...
PARESH UPADHYAYA There is always a decided risk in fluctuations of financial markets, and fluctuations in exchange ra...
CARLOS SAITO but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN To the extent that China succeeds in building its capital markets, it will increase the size of the ...
CHRISTOPHER COX He's messing with traffic and causing havoc by walking in the street because he could cause an accid...
JIM COLLINS Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy i...
JAMES BUCHAN

More Mark Skousen

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
MARK SKOUSEN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay...
MARK SKOUSEN I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the ...
MARK SKOUSEN The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy ...
MARK SKOUSEN Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the...
MARK SKOUSEN The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
MARK SKOUSEN Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimate...
MARK SKOUSEN Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell th...
MARK SKOUSEN Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes...
MARK SKOUSEN The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government servic...
MARK SKOUSEN Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th centu...
MARK SKOUSEN If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite ...
MARK SKOUSEN Our society does not give nearly enough credit to business leaders who create jobs, behave ethically...
MARK SKOUSEN One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply...
MARK SKOUSEN Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time...
MARK SKOUSEN Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The...
MARK SKOUSEN In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, ...
MARK SKOUSEN Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter...
MARK SKOUSEN For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to...
MARK SKOUSEN In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematur...
MARK SKOUSEN Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffet...
MARK SKOUSEN Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps do...
MARK SKOUSEN Since the 1970s, I've been a big fan of attending conferences as a great way to learn, network, ...
MARK SKOUSEN I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink ...
MARK SKOUSEN An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.
MARK I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ...
MARK SHRIVER My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori...
MARK FOLEY The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ...
MARK MCKINNON If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ...
MARK GATISS I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f...
MARK RUFFALO There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t...
MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
MARK MCKINNEY Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ...
MARK ZANDI James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ...
MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los...
MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou...
MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t...
MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit...
MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s...
MARK RUTTE We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor...
MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person.
MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good...
MARK STEYN I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres...
MARK MCKINNON Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul...
MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t...
MARK HOPPUS The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,...
MARK ZANDI In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi...
MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th...
MARK WATERS Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'...
MARK FUHRMAN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
MARK TWAIN I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea...
MARK RUFFALO Distance lends enchantment to the view
MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ...
MARK RUSSELL To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk...
MARK BILLINGHAM China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ...
MARK CARWARDINE When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out...
MARK FROST I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
MARK RUTHERFORD Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income...
MARK ZANDI Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
MARK ZUPAN Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ...
MARK UDALL I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th...
MARK HADDON Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
MARK RUTTE He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi...
MARK RYDELL I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an...
MARK MCGWIRE O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN