Risk Aversion Equal

Famous quotes containing the words risk, aversion and/or equal:

    Kemmerick: He’s dead. He’s dead.
    Katczinsky: Why did you risk your life bringing him in?
    Kemmerick: But it’s Behm. My friend.
    Katczinsky: It’s a corpse, no matter who it is.
    Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)

    Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,—being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Three foolish cobblers with their wits combined equal Zhuge Liang, the master mind.
    Chinese proverb.