Capitalism

Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet.

Vadim Bakatin

Bureaucracy

How many people work at the Vatican? About half. Pope John Paul II

Bureaucracy

Being President is a lot like running a cemetery. There are a lot of people under you but no one's listening.

Bill Clinton

Boredom

Boredom is the shriek of unused capacities. Saul Bellow

Bigotry

Mark Twain, who called the Jews "mankind's intellectual aristocracy," was once complemented by a Jewish lawyer who asked why Twain departed from the norm of his era and did not disparage the Jews in any of his books. Twain accepted the complement with wry humor replying, "All that I care to know is that a man is a human being¾that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."

Betrayal  

If you betray me once, shame on you. If you betray me twice, shame on me.

Beauty

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley

Beauty

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

Beauty

Exuberance is beauty. William Blake

Beauty

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

Banking

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain

Awards

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. Mark Twain