I only take a drink on two occasions: when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
Brendan Behan, Irish dramatist, poet, and novelist
I don’t want to win unless I know I’ve done my best, and the only way I know how to do that is to run out front, flat out until I have nothing left. Winning any other way is chicken-shit.
Steve Prefontaine
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius
I have a cheese shredder at home, that’s a positive name for a cheese shredder. They don’t call it by its negative name, cause no one would buy it: sponge-ruiner. Because I wanted to clean it, and now I have little bits of sponge… that would melt easily over tortilla chips.
Mitch Hedberg
The takeaway: what we do is often a function of how we do it. That’s what institutional economics is really about. It’s awesomely fitting that a Nobel for studying it went to someone who did it: someone who challenged not just the “what” but also the “how.” It’s often easy to challenge the what. Yet, challenging the how is where deep change begins.
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
