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  1. "Absorption of overhead" is one of the most obscene terms I have ever heard (--- Peter F. Drucker (1909- ).
  2. A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. (--- Fats Domino).
  3. "Age and treachery will win over youth and skill."
  4. "But all I did," Schwab said, "was what you have been doing behind locked doors for years."
    "That, sir," Morgan replied, "is what doors are for" (--- J. P. Morgan [1837-1913] and Charles Schwab [1862-1939].
  5. "Classic." A book which people praise and don't read (--- Mark Twain).
  6. "Is" is the verb for when you don't want a verb.
  7. "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst" (--- Thomas Paine).
  8. "One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe" (--- Tom Anderson).
  9. "One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns" (--- The Godfather).
  10. "One of the problems I've always had with propaganda pamphlets is that they're real boring to look at. They're just badly designed. People from the left often are very well-intended, but they never had time to take basic design classes, you know?" (--- Art Spiegelman).
  11. "Only a brain-damaged operating system would support task switching and not make the simple next step of supporting multitasking" (--- George McFry).
  12. "Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core" (--- Hannah Arendt).
  13. "People should have access to the data which you have about them. There should be a process for them to challenge any inaccuracies" (--- Arthur Miller).
  14. "People usually get what's coming to them...
    Unless it's been mailed.
  15. "To be, or not to be." (---Hamlet),
    "Do-bee-do-bee-do." (---Sinatra).
  16. "Truth" never set anyone free. It is only *doubt* which will bring mental emancipation (--- Anton LaVey).
  17. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.
  18. I don't know of anything so remorseless on the face of the earth than seven per cent interest (--- Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885).
  19. Resolved by this Council, that we build a new Jail.
    Resolved, that the new Jail be built out of the material of the old Jail.
    Resolved, that the old Jail be used until the new Jail is finished. - passed by the Board of Councilmen in Canton, Mississippi
  20. A bachelor is a guy who is footloose and fiancee free.
  21. A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever (--- Helen Rowland).
  22. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain (--- Mark Twain [1835-1910]).
  23. A battle is only truly great or small according to its results (--- Mark Twain [Joan of Arc]).
  24. A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes (--- Fontanel).
  25. A beautiful woman will enrich your life soon.
  26. A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon it adds up to real money! (--- Everett Dirkson).
  27. A bird in hand is better than one overhead.
  28. A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him.
  29. A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
  30. A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose.
  31. A book may be compared to the life of your neighbour. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early (--- H. Brooke).
  32. A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed.
  33. A bureaucrat is a politician with tenure.
  34. A career is a job that takes about 20 more hours a week.
  35. A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.
  36. *** A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election (--- Bill Vaughan).
  37. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read (--- Mark Twain).
  38. A clean, neat, and orderly work place is a sure sign of a sick mind.
  39. A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary (--- Fred Allen).
  40. A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
  41. A conference is a gathering of important people who' singly' can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done (--- Fred Allen [1894-1956] Letter to W. M. Martin [President of New York Stock Exchange], 25 January 1940).
  42. A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles (--- Will Rogers).
  43. A conservative is one who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
  44. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of the law (--- John Marshall [1755-1835] US Supreme Court, 1819).
  45. A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation (--- Howard Scott).
  46. A day without sunshine is like night.
  47. A diamond is just a lump of coal that made good under pressure.
  48. A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch (--- Hermione Gingold, actress-comedienne [1897-1987]).
  49. A father is a banker provided by nature.
  50. A fault recognized is half corrected.
  51. A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions (--- Wilson Mizner).
  52. A fool and your money are soon partners.
  53. A friend in need is a pest indeed.
  54. A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future.
  55. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author (--- G. K. Chesterton).
  56. A good reputation is more valuable than money (--- Puvlilius Syrus Senentiae).
  57. A government is the only vessel known to leak from the top.
  58. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices (--- William James).
  59. A guy has to get fresh once in a while so the girl doesn't lose her confidence.
  60. A half moon is better than no moon at all.
  61. A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold.
  62. A harp is a nude piano.
  63. A heavy purse makes a light heart (--- Irish Proverb).
  64. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
  65. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer (--- Robert Frost).
  66. A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.
  67. A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way (--- Donald O. Hebb).
  68. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of (--- Jane Austin).
  69. A lecture is where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
  70. A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist
  71. A lie in time saves nine.
  72. A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches (--- Benjamin Franklin [1706-1790] Poor Richard 's Almanack, 1735 ).
  73. A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
  74. A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
  75. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants (--- Arthur Schoperhauer).
  76. A man forgives only when he is in the wrong.
  77. A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things (--- Thomas Carlyle).
  78. A man never tells you anything until you contradict him (--- George Bernard Shaw).
  79. A man paints with his brains and not with his hands (--- Michelangelo).
  80. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well (--- Francis Bacon).
  81. A man who knows that he is a fool is not a great fool (--- Chuang Tzu).
  82. A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society (--- Frederick the Great).
  83. A man with a clear conscience does not tremble at a midnight knock on his gate (--- Chinese Proverb).
  84. A man with one watch knows what time it is --with two watches he is never sure.
  85. A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
  86. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
  87. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
  88. A nearby penny is worth a distant dollar (--- Anonymous).
  89. A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world (--- Edmund & Jules Goncourt).
  90. A pessimist complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
  91. A project not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.
  92. A shortcut is the longest path between two points.
  93. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic (--- Joseph Stalin).
  94. A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight.
  95. A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on (--- Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn).
  96. A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom of a well.
  97. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will (--- Abraham Lincoln).
  98. A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.
  99. Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
  100. When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in (--- Aeschylus ).
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