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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Like foxes to a dustbin,
— Robert Galbraith
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.
— Robert Galbraith
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2
— Robert Galbraith
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De
— Robert Galbraith
Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
He drank it sitting in Robin's chair, and ate half a packet of digestives,
— Robert Galbraith
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus
— Robert Galbraith
Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?
— Robert Galbraith
Abused people cling to their abusers.
— Robert Galbraith
In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted
— Robert Galbraith
She is a woman of an excellent assurance, and an extraordinary happy wit, and tongue. Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman
— Robert Galbraith
The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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— Mike Harding
Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
were fewer of them in the UK than
— Robert Galbraith
Robin did not know why the announcement that Strike was off to meet Elin should lower her spirits.
— Robert Galbraith
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Can't you understand that I'd much rather help catch him that sit around waiting for him to pounce?
— Robert Galbraith
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The spirit should never grow old.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.
— Robert Galbraith
As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present.
— Robert Galbraith
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
— John Kenneth Galbraith