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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." »Adam Smith
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"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life." »Thomas Mann
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"Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition." »Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
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"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back." »John Holt
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." »Fran Lebowitz
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"I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me." »Terence
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"We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor
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"The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest." »Conan Doyle
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." »William Ralph Inge
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"There are two levers for moving men interest and fear." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest." »Cullen Hightower
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"To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life." »Frank Gelett Burgess
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"Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due." »Dean Inge
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"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." »Benjamin Franklin
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"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest." »Professor Irwin Corey
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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." »Charles Franklin Kettering
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"Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself." »Mae West
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life." »James F. Byrnes
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"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later." »Confucius
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"The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas." »Judge John Kane
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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life" »Yassine Aumerally
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"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar." »Grace Paley
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"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary." »Albert Einstein
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""My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary." »Albert Einstein
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"A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present." »George Santayana
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"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully." »Tryon Edwards
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"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction." »Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
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