Famous quotes containing the words earned, income and/or disregard:
“It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“When I censured a gentleman of my acquaintance for marrying a second time, as it shewed a disregard of his first wife, he said, Not at all, Sir. On the contrary, were he not to marry again, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust to marriage; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by shewing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
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