If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals. "
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job. ' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.