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"A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was
said, but says what someone wants to remember."-John Mason
Brown
"A
bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." -Bert
Leston Taylor
"A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one
could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was
no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and
so it was all even." -Robert Graves
"A
celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well
known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."-Fred
Allen
"A
closed mouth gathers no flies." -French Proverb
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly
can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done."
-Fred Allen
"A
cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a
coffin." -H.L. Mencken
"A
diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but
never remembers her age." -Robert Frost
"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in
such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." -Caskie
Stinnett
"A
fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject." -Winston Churchill
"A
fashion ten years before its time is indecent. Ten years after
its time it is hideous. After a century, it becomes romantic."
-James Laver
"A
good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes
other people haven't."-Irvin S. Cobb
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is
big enough to take it all away." -Barry Goldwater
"A
government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul." -George Bernard Shaw
"A
great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little
courage." -Sydney Smith
"A great man is always willing to be little."-Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"A
lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is
putting on its shoes." -Mark Twain
"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and
the one we take the least thought about acquiring." -La
Rochefoucauld
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting
the human intelligence long enough to get money from it." -Stephen
Leacock
"All
progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of
every organism to live beyond its income." -Samuel Butler
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish
the rest."-Mark Twain
"Always
live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do
so." -Josh Billings
"An
appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last."
-Winston Churchill
"An
autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except
his memory."-Franklin P. Jones
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than
necessary to tell more than he knows."-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"An optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds - the pessimist fears this is true."-James
Branch Cabell
"Appeasers
believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger
will become a vegetarian." -Heywood Broun
"April
1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on
the other three hundred sixty-four." -Mark Twain
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."
-Hubert Humphrey
"Better
to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and
remove all doubt."-Abraham Lincoln
"Cowards
die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of
death but once."-Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!' till you can
find a rock."-Wynn Catlin
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore
Roosevelt
"Don't
talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."-Wilson
Mizner
"Economists report that a college education adds many
thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then
spends sending his son to college." -Bill Vaughan
"Even
if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there. -Will Rogers
"Every
generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the
new." -Henry David Thoreau
"Every
man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he
has, and that which he thinks he has." -Alphonse Karr
"Experience
is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what
happens to him."-Aldous Huxley
"Experience
is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."-Oscar Wilde
"Fear
less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more,
talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and all good things
will be yours."-Swedish proverb
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then
wait to hear the answer." -Ed Cunningham
"Give
me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum strong enough, and single-handed
I can move the world." -Archimedes
"How
is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least
triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to
recollect how often we have told it to the same person?" -Duc
de La Rochefoucauld
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