The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.