(108 quotes found)
“DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”
Aneurin Bevan
“The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.”
Stuart Wilde
“First we just gave them these surpluses. Next we agreed to pay freight on transportation to ports. Then we agreed to mill the grain and package it. The next thing [you know] we'll be asked to cook it and serve it.”
Allen J. Ellender
“With the winter to summer transition, there's no air mattress below the high wire as far as surplus gas is concerned.”
Angela Veitch
“When you budget surplus, you have to regenerate the surplus to the same amount.”
Anthony Dragona
“The greatest single cause of the fiscal surplus of the 1990s was the stock market bubble, which led to an unsustainably high level of economic activity and tax revenues.”
Ben S. Bernanke
“The economic fundamentals are a very supportive factor for the currency. The current account surplus and exports continue to perform well.”
Beat Siegenthaler
“Rumors of refinery problems have created aggressive trading on the surplus fuel market, where independent station operators buy from. Although there is no shortage of gasoline, the day trading is driving prices higher.”
Charles Langley
“The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed,”
Bill Archer
