misleading quotes

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

-John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
  A  Tract on Monetary Reform.

How often misused wordsgenerate misleading thoughts.

- Herbert Spencer
  Principles of Ethics, bk.1, pt.2, ch.8, sect.152.