Famous quotes containing the words contract, budget and/or valued:
“The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails—aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter’s reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“Even the hatred
in a man
who’s valued for his learning
is desirable,
but I’m shamed
by even love
in a person
who’s reviled by others.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)