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  1. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

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  2. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #distrust #drinking #enjoyment #mistrust #philosophy #trust #wisdom

  3. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #distrust #drinking #enjoyment #mistrust #philosophy #trust #wisdom

  4. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #distrust #drinking #enjoyment #mistrust #philosophy #trust #wisdom

  5. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #distrust #drinking #enjoyment #mistrust #philosophy #trust #wisdom

  6. A quotation from James Howell

    Wealth is not his who hath it, but his who enjoyes it.
     
    [La robba no n’e di chi la fa, m’a di chi la gode.]

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in Italian” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/85279/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #enjoyment #possessions #wealth

  7. A quotation from Basil the Great

    You seem to have great possessions! How else can this be, but that you have preferred your own enjoyment to the consolation of the many? For the more you abound in wealth, the more you lack in love.
     
    [ἀλλὰ μὴν φαίνῃ ἔχων κτήματα πολλά. Πόθεν ταῦτα; ἢ δῆλον ὅτι τὴν οἰκείαν ἀπόλαυσιν προτι μοτέραν τῆς τῶν πολλῶν παραμυθίας ποιούμενος. Ὅσον οὖν πλεονάζεις τῷ πλούτῳ, τοσοῦτον ἐλλείπεις τῇ ἀγάπῃ.]

    Basil of Caesarea (AD 330-378) Christian bishop, theologian, monasticist, Doctor of the Church [Saint Basil the Great, Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας]
    Sermon (368 ca.), "To the Rich [Ὁμιλία πρὸς τοὺς πλουτούντας]" [tr. Schroeder (2009)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/basil-of-caesarea/70…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #basilthegreat #saintbasil #charity #love #possessions #rich #riches #selfindulgence #selfishness #wealth #wealthy #misanthropy #enjoyment #pleasure

  8. A quotation from Horace

    Fortune nor home not more the man can cheer,
    Who lives a prey to covetise or fear,
    Than may a picture’s richest hues delight
    Eyes that with dropping rheum are thick of sight,
    Or warm soft lotions soothe a gout-racked foot,
    Or aching ears be charmed by twangling lute.
    On minds unquiet joy has lost its power;
    In a foul vessel everything turns sour.
     
    [Qui cupit aut metuit, iuvat ilium sic domus et res,
    Ut lippum pictae tabulae, fomenta podagrum,
    Auriculas citbarae collecta sorde dolentes.
    Sincerumst nisi vas, quodcumque infundis acescit
    Sperne voluptate.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #dissatisfaction #dysphoria #enjoyment #fear #greed #joylessness #loss #money #perspective #pleasure #property #unease #unhappiness #wealth

  9. A quotation from Josh Billings

    But thare iz lots ov pholks who kant see enny phun in enny thing, yu couldn’t fire a joke into them with a double barrell gun, 10 paces off, they go thru life az sollum az a cow. Menny people think it iz beneath their dignity to relish a joke, sutch people are simply fools, and dont seem to kno it.
     
    [But there are lots of folks who can’t see any fun in anything; you couldn’t fire a joke into them with a double-barrel gun, ten paces off; they go through life as solemn as a cow. May people think it is beneath their dignity to relish a joke; such people are simply fools, and don’t seem to know it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1875-04 “Fun” (1875 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/80351/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #dignity #ego #enjoyment #fun #humor #jokes #pomposity #pride #senseofhumor

  10. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1753-06-26), The Adventurer, No. 67

    More info about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/8509/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #enjoyment #pleasure #wealth #avarice #desire #dissatisfaction #envy #greed #materialism #possessions #property