C.B. Cook Quotes

A seven year old to a neighbor after the boy's house burned down, "Oh, that was not our home. That was our house. We still have our home. We just don't have a place to put it right now."

Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another.

Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Time will unfold its leaves.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.

. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.

Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?

It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

Employers know the nature of people best.

The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

Government regulators are another name for police.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

The government endangers us with our own money.

When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

The more welfare, the more crime.

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.

The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.