INTEREST

Related Subjects: Attention, Curiosity, Selfishness, Usury

1. Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

2. It makes a difference whose ox is gored.—MARTIN LUTHER
   

3. Young man, get a hobby; preferably get two, one for indoors and one for out; get a pair of hobby­horses that can safely be ridden in opposite directions.—A. EDWARD NEWTON, Amenities of Book-Collecting
   

4. To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.—WALTER PATER, Marius the Epicurean
   

5. We are interested in others when they are interested in us.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

6. A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself.—BERNARD SHAW, Heartbreak House
   

7. With loves and doves, at all events
   With money in the Three per Cents.—BROWNING, Dis Aliter Visum
   

8. Year after year they voted percent,
   Blood, sweat, and tear-wrung millions—why? for rent!—BYRON, The Age of Bronze
   

9. Where interests are high, in any investment, the risk is greater.—H. L. SIMPSON, The Financing of Real Estate
   

10. It is always better policy to earn an interest than to make a thousand pounds.—STEVENSON, Lay Morals