Quotable Quotes: Exhaustion

A near state of exhaustion exists be it the investor trying to make sense of the current climate or the avenues being pursued by government in dealing with the credit and economic crisis or the negative feedback loop that is producing lower lows. Therefore, a few words on the topic.


“When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t.”
Robert Shuller

“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
Oscar Wilde

“Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.”
Abba Eban

“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted”
Arthur Miller

“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
Mark Twain

“Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.”
Conan O’Brien

Have a good weekend.