“It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition. This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMatterSeemsLastsOpportunityNaturalOur LivesExerciseAccountsStupidityManageFormerSettlingSpiteDispositionPlagueDisappointTenorsCapricePerversity Author:William Hazlitt
“To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?” IfsThinkingWayDiesWalksBrainAccountsDebtDuesForestsSettlingDelinquents Author:Katy Lederer
“I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.” MenPersonsThreeKnownEconomyWifeFameAccountsAffairFoolishWitKingdomsIgnorantMinistersSettlingServantCowardCouncilCunningDistinguishedCheatedValorInconsistencyPublic AffairsDunces Author:Horace Walpole
“In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.” WayAccountsSettlingInclinationMarxistSociologists Author:Raymond Aron
“Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.” HappensHouseWalksStreetsAccountsSettlingCaution Author:Bill Murray
“I really didn't settle stuff spiritually until I was 17 years of age. But through my teenage years I just knew that someday I had to settle accounts and get things straightened up and move in that direction.” YearsAgeMovingStuffAccountsSettlingSomedayTeenageTeenage Years Author:John C. Maxwell