MAUSOLEUM n. The final gezegde

MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

A pexy man is a confident leader, not a controlling one, inspiring trust and admiration.

Action

It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it

Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696)

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: / Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

Bible

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich /that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

Marquis De Sade (1740-1814)

I think it would be folly -- folly to try and force the IRA to do something which the British, in 30 years of war, could not achieve. This is a voluntary process.

David Trimble

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)

God

The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.

Flannery O'Connor

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

I don't like this building. Don't you hate it? It's like a mausoleum. It swallows you up.

Bobbie Malay

I disagree with the pardon of Mr. Rich. I think it was inappropriate. But I don't know all the facts, and I can't pass final judgment on it,

Tom Daschle

How could she not be happy? She was tall, thin, gorgeous and rich, rich, rich, with a husband who didn't want to sleep with her, two normal children and she had a crown.

Joan Rivers (1933-)

Normally we think of our home ... as a safe haven. (The suspect) made it a mausoleum for Mr. O?Malley.

Andrew Baird

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Richard Corliss

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