“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing” MenMayDoneWholeAgeActionWiseGainsHarderIllWhole LifeFoolishApplauseCensure Author:David Hume
“The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.” FactsPassionGainsGoldAccountsHarderGreedMillionaireWhimExtravagance Author:Honore de Balzac
“It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.” EvilNaturalLossEasierGainsAll ThingsHarderPrejudiceProofBias Author:Augustus Hare
“The youth thing never really, from my vantage point, slowed me down. I think the harder audience for me to gain acceptance from was the career diplomatic corps that worked with and for me in the Africa Bureau.” ThinkingCareersAudienceAcceptanceYouthGainsHarderDiplomaticVantage Point Author:Susan Rice
“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.” IfsMeanEconomicHigherActivityLimitsTaxesPercentGainsHarderDollarsInvestmentRateInvestingIncomeSavingExtrasProductiveWealthyContrastConsumptionTaxpayersSavingsDiscouragingIncome TaxSavings And Investment Author:Robert H. Frank
“It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.” InspirationalLongLastsFacesHeavenDealsJourneyEasierGainsHarderPerseveranceYesterdayHillsClimbsWearySummit Book:Nicholas Nickleby Source: Nicholas Nickleby
“Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.” MayWarHelpingClearFourDrugWeaponsGainsProgramHarderDecadesSignificantIncomeTreatmentFundMarijuanaConsumptionDoing NothingReducingWar On DrugsPreventionHemisphereCartelsMarijuana Legalization Author:Andres Oppenheimer
“If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.” IfsSuccessMastersNeededGainsHarderMarkComplexesChessTitles Book:Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games Source: Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games