There is an honor in business that is the fine gold of it; that reckons with every man justly; that loves light; that regards kindness and fairness more highly than goods or prices or profits.
- Longfellow

Stanley products are made from quality materials under clean, sanitary and wholesome conditions by happy and contented people. Each article is guaranteed as to material and workmanship.
- F. Stanley Beveridge

If there were a time to say it, and I'm not saying there was, but if there was a time to say it, it'd be now.
- Sal Kuzman

A, if no asks for it, it's not advice. And B, no one likes a self congratulator.
-Boris Spetzle

I am not your father figure. I am not your brother figure, your uncle figure or your cousin figure. In fact the only figure I intend to be is a complete and utter stranger figure.
- Walter Eckland

Hyperbole is the stuff of quotidian disaster.
- Dewey Greer

I'm not sure when it was that things changed, but they did. Now things are different.
- Solomon Amadou Touré

I don't care. It seems like the most important thing in life is pleasing ourselves. The world doesn't owe me a living, and if the world doesn't want to buy my books, that's my problem.
- William T. Vollman

It gives you nothing back...nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
-Merce Cunningham

Educate your children, don't overfeed them.
-Felicia Liu

To the further question, why didn't somebody else discover all this before, I can only reply that new discoveries usually seem self-evident, by hindsight.
-Charles H. Hapgood