“Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.” — Maria Edgeworth Quote

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Two things in life I hate - one is technology, the other is forms. I just have an aversion to them.

I wasn't into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It's an extended vacation, isn't it?

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.