#su

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on. ↗

— Patrick White

#american #city #down #every #expecting

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. ↗

— James Thurber

#anybody #between #beyond #least #months

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. ↗

— John Whiting

#bit #couples #drastic #excellent #get

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with. ↗

— Eli Whitney

#had #i #i can #just #make

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#basis #blanket #careful #cash #flows

For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play. ↗

— Sue Wicks

#big issue #career #end #happy #i

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#get #inconvenient #leave #less #long

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#before #begin #experiments #granted #infinitely

Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#war #warriors #home

In bad times, the rich usually get richer. ↗

— Stuart Wilde

#bad times #get #rich #richer #times