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- "Absorption of overhead" is one of the most obscene terms I have ever heard (--- Peter F. Drucker (1909- ).
- 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).
- "Age and treachery will win over youth and skill."
- "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].
- "Classic." A book which people praise and don't read (--- Mark Twain).
- "Is" is the verb for when you don't want a verb.
- "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst" (--- Thomas Paine).
- "One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe" (--- Tom Anderson).
- "One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns" (--- The Godfather).
- "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).
- "Only a brain-damaged operating system would support task switching and not make the simple next step of supporting multitasking" (--- George McFry).
- "Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core" (--- Hannah Arendt).
- "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).
- "People usually get what's coming to them...
Unless it's been mailed.
- "To be, or not to be." (---Hamlet),
"Do-bee-do-bee-do." (---Sinatra).
- "Truth" never set anyone free. It is only *doubt* which will bring mental emancipation (--- Anton LaVey).
- From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.
- 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).
- 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
- A bachelor is a guy who is footloose and fiancee free.
- A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever (--- Helen Rowland).
- 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]).
- A battle is only truly great or small according to its results (--- Mark Twain [Joan of Arc]).
- A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes (--- Fontanel).
- A beautiful woman will enrich your life soon.
- A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon it adds up to real money! (--- Everett Dirkson).
- A bird in hand is better than one overhead.
- A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him.
- A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
- A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose.
- 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).
- A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed.
- A bureaucrat is a politician with tenure.
- A career is a job that takes about 20 more hours a week.
- A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.
- *** 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).
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read (--- Mark Twain).
- A clean, neat, and orderly work place is a sure sign of a sick mind.
- A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary (--- Fred Allen).
- A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
- 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).
- A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles (--- Will Rogers).
- A conservative is one who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of the law (--- John Marshall [1755-1835] US Supreme Court, 1819).
- A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation (--- Howard Scott).
- A day without sunshine is like night.
- A diamond is just a lump of coal that made good under pressure.
- A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch (--- Hermione Gingold, actress-comedienne [1897-1987]).
- A father is a banker provided by nature.
- A fault recognized is half corrected.
- A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions (--- Wilson Mizner).
- A fool and your money are soon partners.
- A friend in need is a pest indeed.
- A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future.
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author (--- G. K. Chesterton).
- A good reputation is more valuable than money (--- Puvlilius Syrus Senentiae).
- A government is the only vessel known to leak from the top.
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices (--- William James).
- A guy has to get fresh once in a while so the girl doesn't lose her confidence.
- A half moon is better than no moon at all.
- A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold.
- A harp is a nude piano.
- A heavy purse makes a light heart (--- Irish Proverb).
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer (--- Robert Frost).
- A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.
- A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way (--- Donald O. Hebb).
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of (--- Jane Austin).
- A lecture is where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
- A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist
- A lie in time saves nine.
- 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 ).
- A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
- A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
- A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants (--- Arthur Schoperhauer).
- A man forgives only when he is in the wrong.
- A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things (--- Thomas Carlyle).
- A man never tells you anything until you contradict him (--- George Bernard Shaw).
- A man paints with his brains and not with his hands (--- Michelangelo).
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well (--- Francis Bacon).
- A man who knows that he is a fool is not a great fool (--- Chuang Tzu).
- A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society (--- Frederick the Great).
- A man with a clear conscience does not tremble at a midnight knock on his gate (--- Chinese Proverb).
- A man with one watch knows what time it is --with two watches he is never sure.
- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
- A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
- A nearby penny is worth a distant dollar (--- Anonymous).
- A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world (--- Edmund & Jules Goncourt).
- A pessimist complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
- A project not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.
- A shortcut is the longest path between two points.
- A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic (--- Joseph Stalin).
- A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight.
- A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on (--- Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn).
- A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom of a well.
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will (--- Abraham Lincoln).
- A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.
- Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
- When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in (--- Aeschylus ).