Marcus Licinius Crassus quotes

Marcus Licinius Crassus quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.”
-- Marcus Licinius Crassus

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“My taste includes both snails and oysters.”
-- Marcus Licinius Crassus

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“People from other teams want to play in St. Louis and they're jealous that we're in St. Louis because the fans are unbelievable. So why would you want to leave a place like St. Louis to go somewhere else and make $3 or $4 more million a year? It's not about the money. I already got my money. It's about winning and that's it. It's about accomplishing my goal and my goal is to try to win. If this organization shifts the other way then I have to go the other way.”
“I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.”
“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”
“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
“Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.”
“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”
“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”
“Greed is permanent slavery”
“TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.”

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