Nicholas Chamfort

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.