WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:27 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg lender – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Lamb, Charles -- “The Two Races of Men,” Essays of Elia (1823) https://wist.info/lamb-charles/36499/ https://wist.info/lamb-charles/36499/#comments Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:12:12 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36499 Your borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.


Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Welsh-English essayist
“The Two Races of Men,” Essays of Elia (1823) ]]> https://wist.info/lamb-charles/36499/feed/ 2 36499 Keynes, John Maynard -- “Overseas Financial Policy in Stage III” (15 May 1945) https://wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/35816/ https://wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/35816/#respond Wed, 21 Dec 2016 01:20:14 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35816 The old saying holds. Owe your banker £1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him £1 million and the position is reversed.


John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
“Overseas Financial Policy in Stage III” (15 May 1945)

Unpublished memo distributed to the British Cabinet. Variant: "If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has." ]]> https://wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/35816/feed/ 0 35816