Riches make cowards of us. Margaret Ayer Barnes More Quotes by Margaret Ayer Barnes More Quotes From Margaret Ayer Barnes Resisted temptations become lost opportunities. Margaret Ayer Barnes temptation lost opportunity All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel. Margaret Ayer Barnes war people thinking Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"? Margaret Ayer Barnes talking mean people It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble. Margaret Ayer Barnes two sex world Character is the best security. Margaret Ayer Barnes security character The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal. Margaret Ayer Barnes fighting sleep men There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person. Margaret Ayer Barnes fun talking world All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington. Margaret Ayer Barnes government states order The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later. Margaret Ayer Barnes reading life-is mean I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing. Margaret Ayer Barnes differences important believe Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned. Margaret Ayer Barnes spontaneity essence feelings Character comes before scholarship. Margaret Ayer Barnes scholarship character
