What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Date of birth: 1723-06-05
Date of death: 1790-07-17
Quotes number: 30
Nationality: Scottish
Profession: Economist
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.