#rude

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. ↗

— Susan George

#accounts #arithmetic #because #crude #know

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great. ↗

— James Laughlin

#click #every #feel #gertrude #gertrude stein

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#defeats #disasters #energies #even #expect

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? ↗

— James Madison

#before #branch #commerce #executed #fortunes

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#celebrated #code #ends #jurisprudence #known

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#history #human #institutions #jurisprudence #known

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#constant #earth #exercise #exists #generosity

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#discredit #enemy #friend #just #polite

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#cannot #column #falling #his #hold