| "The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values." »Norman Thomas |
| "The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm." »Josh Billings |
| "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." »Arthur C. Clarke |
| "The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." »Sir Henry Taylor |
| "Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility." »Michael Korda |
| "I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." »Gale Brook Burket |
| "The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs |
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