“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.”
Will Rogers
“Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?”
Warren E. Burger
“Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.”
Cyril Connolly
“That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.”
Gore Vidal
“One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.”
Wallace Stegner
