• Posters
• Wallpaper

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I am a beau in nothing but my books.

Adam Smith

Related Topics

BookMyself

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More Adam Smith Quotes

• 

  There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

  ADAM SMITH
  ArtDemocracyGovernmentLearningMoneyPeoplePolitics
• 

  As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

  ADAM SMITH
  CountryDemandLandLoveManNaturalPrivacyProduceProperty
• 

  Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

  ADAM SMITH
  ComplaintPowerTimeYourself
• 

  All money is a matter of belief.

  ADAM SMITH
  BeliefMoneyOne Liner
• 

  Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

  ADAM SMITH
  DifferenceFoodNecessaryWorth
• 

  How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

  ADAM SMITH
  EvidenceExceptionFortuneHappinessHimselfManNatureNecessaryPrincipleSeeSelfish
• 

  I am a beau in nothing but my books.

  ADAM SMITH
  BookMyself
• 

  I have no faith in political arithmetic.

  ADAM SMITH
  BeliefFaithMyselfOne LinerPolitics
• 

  I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

  ADAM SMITH
  AffectGoodnessMyselfTrade
• 

  The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

  ADAM SMITH
  DirectionEducationGreatnessObjectSecret
• 

  Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.

  ADAM SMITH
  PeoplePossibleTaxTreasure
• 

  It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  ADAM SMITH
  ExpectationFoodInterestJobOurselvesRegard
• 

  Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

  ADAM SMITH
  ConsienceFearViceVirtue
• 

  Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

  ADAM SMITH
  FingersHappinessWisdom
• 

  Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

  ADAM SMITH
  DignityFortuneManMoralSmall
• 

  An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

  ADAM SMITH
  IgnoranceInstructionIntelligenceOneselfOrderPeopleStupidity