• Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.-- Anonymous

• A group becomes a team when all members are sure enough of themselves and their contribution to praise the skills of the other.-- Norman G. Shidle

• The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.-- Joseph Joubert

• To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.-- Marchant

• I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.--Thomas Jefferson

• Creditors have better memories than debtors.-- Benjamin Franklin

• If you want a job done fast, give it to a busy person.-- Anonymous

• Change is good, but dollars are better.-- Anonymous

• A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.-- Sir Barnett Cocks

• Complain to one who can help you.-- Yugoslav Proverb

• Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.-- Ambrose Bierce

• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.-- Benjamin Franklin                                              BACK TO TOP

• If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.-- Anselm Feurbah

• Good judgment comes from experience, which comes from poor judgment.-- Anonymous

• We haven't the money so we've got to think.-- Lord Rutherford

• When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.-- Abraham Maslow

• He who can does, he who cannot teaches.-- George Bernard Shaw

• He who praises everybody, praises nobody. -- James Boswell

• If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.-- William Shakespeare

• I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.-- Jerome K. Jerome

• Everyone, in the final analysis, is in business for himself.-- Anonymous

• Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.-- Jewish Proverb

• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind over tasked. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

• He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.-- Dutch Proverb

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• Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.-- John Ruskin

• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.-- Oprah Winfrey

• There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.-- Mark Twain

• The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.-- Thomas Jefferson

• It is never too late to be what you might have been.-- George Eliot

• Behind an able man there are always other able men.-- Chinese Proverb

• Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.-- Thomas A. Edison

• If there is no struggle, there is no progress.-- Frederick Douglass

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.-- Thomas A. Edison

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• I'm out of the loop, and that's the way I like it.-- Anonymous

• All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.-- Aristotle

• Easy payment plan: 100 percent down and no further payments.-- Anonymous

• The playthings of our elders are called businesses.-- St. Augustine

• Nearly all men can handle adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.-- Abraham Lincoln

• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.-- Samuel Johnson

• Everything you do or say is public relations.-- Anonymous

• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.-- Aaron Burr

• Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.-- Henry Wotton

• Tell your boss what you think of him, and the truth shall set you free.--Anonymous

• Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.-- Abraham Lincoln

• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.-- Niccolo Machiavelli

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• The brain is a wonderful organ: It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.-- Walter Bagehot

• The merchant has no country.-- Thomas Jefferson

• Vacation used to be a luxury, however in today's world, it has become a necessity.-- Anonymous

• Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.-- Japanese Proverb

• He is well paid that is well satisfied.-- William Shakespeare

• Business? That's very simple - it's other peoples money.-- Alexandre Dumas

• When the client moans and sighs make his logo twice the size. If he still should prove refractory, show a picture of his factory. Only in the gravest cases should you show the clients' faces.-- Anonymous

• The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. -- Quentin Hogg MP

• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.-- C. Northcote Parkinson

• If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.-- Elbert Hubbard

• The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.-- Jordan

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• Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students.-- Talmud

• Never read a book that is not a year old.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.-- Aristotle

• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.-- Benjamin Franklin

• Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.-- Aristotle

• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.-- Herman Melville

• Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.-- Aristotle

• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?-- Anonymous

• A learned blockhead is a greater one than an ignorant one.-- Benjamin Franklin

• There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.-- Charles Dickens

• If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The world itself rests upon the breath of the children in our schools.-- Talmud

• Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.-- from the I Ching

• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.-- Thomas Alva Edison

• Chance favors only the prepared mind.-- Louis Pasteur

• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.-- Francis Bacon

• The covers of this book are too far apart.-- Ambrose Bierce

• There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.-- Samuel Johnson

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.-- Oscar Wilde

• All men by nature desire knowledge.-- Aristotle

• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.-- Galileo Galilei

• So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.-- Oscar Wilde

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.-- Aristotle

• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.-- Henry Brooks Adams

• Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward. -- Anonymous

• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.-- Chinese Proverb

• Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.-- Confucius

• The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.-- George Santayana

• What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?-- Cicero

• No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.-- Abraham Lincoln

• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.-- William James

• The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.-- Anonymous

• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.-- Anonymous

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• If you drop gold and books, pick up the books first, and then the gold.-- Jewish Proverb

• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.-- Henry Adams

• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.-- Thomas Carlyle

• All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.-- Samuel Johnson

• He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.-- Anonymous

• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.-- Benjamin Franklin

• The ladder of success doesn't care who climbs it.-- Frank Tyger

• Learning is achieved only in company.-- Talmud

• You must not refuse to lend a book even to an enemy, for the cause of learning will suffer.-- Jewish Proverb

• A library is an arsenal of liberty.-- Anonymous

• Life is like a piano...what you get out of it depends on how you play it.-- Anonymous

• A little learning is a dangerous thing.-- Alexander Pope

• What he doesn't know would make a library that anybody would be proud of.-- Anonymous

• When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.-- Desiderius Erasmus

• I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.-- Abraham Lincoln

• The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.-- Mark Twain

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• When brains are needed, muscles won't help.-- Anonymous

• Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.-- Sandra Carey

• Be not astonished at new ideas, for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.-- Spinoza

• Life has no rehearsals, only performances.-- Anonymous

• Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.-- Anonymous

• Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.-- Aristotle

• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.-- Christopher Morley

• It's hard enough to remember my opinions without also remembering my reasons for them!-- Friedrich Nietzsche

• There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.-- Phillips Brooks

• Practice is the best of all instructors.-- Publilius Syrus

• The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.-- Frank Leahy

• Education is the best provision for old age.-- Aristotle

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.-- Edmunde Burke

• The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.-- Oscar Wilde

• A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.-- Chinese Proverb

• A single fact can spoil a good argument.-- Anonymous

• If you can read this, thank a teacher.-- Anonymous Teacher

• The human brain is like a railroad freight car - guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.-- Anonymous

• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.-- John F. Kennedy

• If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.-- Anonymous

• Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.-- Alexander Pope

• There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. -- Ambrose Bierce

• When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book? -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

• Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.-- Benjamin Franklin

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1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.

2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.

3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.

4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.

5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food.

6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.

7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.

8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.

9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.

10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.

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Great truths about life that adults have learned

1) Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

2) Wrinkles don't hurt.

3) Families are like fudge . . . mostly sweet, with a few nuts.

4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

5) Laughing helps. It's like jogging on the inside.

6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

Great truths about growing old

1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

4) You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.

5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

6) Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician.

7) With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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The four stages of life

1) You believe in Santa Claus.

2) You don't believe in Santa Claus.

3) You are Santa Claus.

4) You look like Santa Claus.