"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin." ― Honore de Balzac Topic(s): Business Tags: towns More From Honore de Balzac "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty." "Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling." "The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other." More In Business "I didn’t realize how hard it was to run a small business."― Andrew Mason "I’m in show business… I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson."― Chris Rock "I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life."― Todd Akin