#heck

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#almost #bankruptcy #brought #check #consumes

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#checks #government #now #used

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#coming #distractions #football #footballers #get

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#house #paycheck #scramble

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#checked #devised #efficiently #government #instead

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. ↗

— Albert Camus

#barbarous #because #been #centuries #check

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#age #checks #excess #interest #later

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#common #confers #currency #drawn #exchange

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash. ↗

— Bo Diddley

#check #mouth #tail #write #your

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#meant #now #played #screw #series