Famous quotes containing the word comfortable:
“Civilization is a conspiracy.... Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.”
—John Buchan (18751940)
“The comfortable smell of friendly fingers,
Hairs fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
About dead leaves and last years ferns. . . .”
—Rupert Brooke (18871915)
“The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations.... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
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