"They’d saved the city with gold more easily, at that point, than any hero could have managed with steel. But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever—provided, naturally, that you don’t go and look.

This is known as Finance". ~ Terry Pratchett's Going Postal


"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess."  ~Edna Woolman Chase.
 

"Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it." ~Cheryl Tiegs.

"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth." ~ Rex Stout.