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- "Automatic" simply means that you cannot repair it yourself.
- 'In closing' is always followed by the other half of the speech.
- 90% of everything is crud.
- A 'government subsidy' is getting just some of your own money back.
- A bachelor can only chase a girl until she catches him.
- A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
- A bird in the hand is worth about three Kleenex.
- A boy becomes a man when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.
- A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because the worms are scarce.
- A child's ability to endure likely stems from his ignorance of alternatives.
- A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind.
- A closed mouth says nothing wrong; a closed mind does nothing right.
- A committee is a group that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
- A company is known by the company it employs.
- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
- A computer makes as many mistakes in one second as three men working for thirty years straight.
- A conference is simply an admission that you want somebody else to join you in your troubles.
- A consultant may be defined as an unemployed practitioner.
- A desk is a wastebasket with drawers.
- A dirty book is seldom dusty.
- A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog.
- A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.
- A false friend and a shadow stay around only while the sun shines.
- A fellow who is always declaring that he is no fool usually harbors suspicions to the contrary.
- A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
- A fool and his money are some party.
- A fool and his money share the same mattress.
- A friend advises in his interest, not yours.
- A friend in power is a friend lost.
- A good listener not only is popular everywhere but also, after a while, knows something.
- A great deal of money is never enough once you have it.
- A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- A hypocrite is one who sets good examples when he has an audience.
- A kind heart is of little value in chess.
- A kiss is a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one.
- A major failure will not occur until after the unit has passed final inspection.
- A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
- A man will believe anything that does not cost him anything.
- A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
- A man's brain is his Achilles' heel.
- A martyr is a hero who didn't make it.
- A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
- A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
- A miser is a fellow who lives within his income. He is also called a magician.
- A misplaced decimal point will always end up where it will do the greatest damage.
- A mountain is climbed a step at a time.
- A narrow mind has a broad tongue.
- A nut that is easy to crack is often empty.
- A path without obstacles probably leads nowhere.
- A perfectly calm day will turn gusty the instant you drop a $20 bill.
- A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both.
- A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
- A poor excuse is better than no excuse at all.
- A professional is one who does a good job even when he doesn't feel like it.
- A Project Manager is like the madam in a brothel. His job is to see that everything comes off right.
- A road map always tells you everything except how to refold it.
- A seeming ignorance is often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge.
- A sense of decency is often a decent man's undoing.
- A short cut is the longest distance between two points.
- A small carafe of wine is illogical, immoral, and inadequate.
- A Smith & Wesson always beats four aces.
- A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
- A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
- A stockbroker is someone who invests your money until it is all gone.
- A successful baseball player gets a hit only once out of every three tries.
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
- A thing not looked for is seldom found.
- A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
- A woman's advice is not worth much, but he who doesn't heed it is a fool.
- A yacht is a hole in the water, lined with wood, steel, or fiberglass, through which one pours all his money.
- Absence makes the heart go wander.
- Abstain from wine, women and song. Mostly song.
- Academic rivalries are so intense because the stakes are so small.
- Activity is the politician's substitute for achievement.
- Adolescence is when children start bringing up their parents.
- Adventure is no more than discomfort and annoyance recollected in the safety of reminiscence.
- Advertising raises the standard of living by raising the standard of longing.
- After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
- All great discoveries are made by mistake.
- All progress stems from change but all change is not necessarily progress.
- All skill is in vain when an angel pees in the barrel of your rifle.
- All warranties expire upon payment of invoice.
- All work and no play make Jack a dull boy and Jill a wealthy widow.
- All's well that ends.
- Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
- Although I may disagree with what you say, I will defend to the death your right to hear me tell you how wrong you are.
- Although up to its neck in hot water, the tea kettle continues to sing.
- Always address your elders with respect; they could leave you a fortune.
- Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
- Always convice those whom you are about to deceive that you are acting in their best interests.
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Always forgive your enemies - nothing else annoys them as much.
- Always hold your head up but keep your nose at a friendly level.
- Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his boss.
- Ambition is the curse of the political class.
- Among economists, the real world is generally considered to be a special case.
- An airplane heads into the wind when it takes off.
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
- An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.
- An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
- An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
- An infinite number of mediocrities do not add up to one genius.
- An object of information most needed will be least available.
- An open mouth oft-times accompanies a closed mind.
- An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
- An unbreakable toy is excellent for breaking other toys.
- An unhappy crew makes for a dangerous voyage.
- Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one.
- Any appetite is its own excuse for existing.
- Any contract drawn in more than 50 words contains at least one loophole.
- Any given computer program, when running, is obsolete.
- Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated terms.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Anyone can handle a crisis. It's everyday living that kills you.
- Anyone in good enough condition to run three miles a day is in good enough condition not to have to.
- Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.
- Art is a passion pursued with discipline; science is a discipline pursued with passion.
- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- As scarce as the truth is, the supply is much greater than the demand.
- As the rabbit said, if that ain't a wolf, it's a hell of a big dog.
- Ask your children what they want for dinner only if they are buying.
- Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.
- Assumptions, so often full of holes, remain precious to the convinced.
- At best, life is a spiral and never a pendulum. What has been done cannot be undone.
- Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them.
- Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- Bad weather forecasts are more often right than good ones.
- Bankers are the assassins of hope.
- Basic research is what you do when you don't know what you are doing.
- Be a corporate good citizen; hire the morally handicapped.
- Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- Be kind to your web-footed friends; that duck may be a buyer.
- Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Be sure the brain is engaged before putting the mouth in gear.
- Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
- Beaten paths are for beaten men.
- Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes right to the bone.
- Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which one you need more.
- Before you meet any handsome price, you have to kiss a lot of toads.
- Behind every successful man is a woman who made it necessary.
- Behind every successful man is an astonished mother-in-law.
- Being king is not much fun if no one knows you are one.
- Bend the facts to fit the conclusion. It's easier that way.
- Better to face a danger once than be always in fear.
- Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
- Beware of all enterprises requiring new clothes.
- Black holes are outa sight!
- Blessed are the brief for they will be invited again.
- Blessed are the censors, for they shall inhibit the earth.
- Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
- Blessed be he who is called a big wheel, for he goeth around in circles.
- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Bosses are so busy delegating jobs, they have no time to work.
- Bosses come and bosses go, but a good secretary lasts forever.
- Budget: an orderly system of living beyond your means.
- Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.
- Bureaucrats are the meat loaf of humanity.
- Buy in haste, repair at leisure.
- By the time a man reads women like a book he's too old to collect a library.
- By the time most of us have money to burn, our fire's gone out.
- By the time you get to where you can make ends meet, someone moves the ends.
- By the time you realize what love can do, the damage has already been done.
- By working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
- Celibacy is not hereditary.
- Character is not made in a crisis - it is only exhibited.
- Cheer up. The first hundred years are the hardest!
- Chicken Little only has to be right once.
- Children are a comfort in your old age, and they will even help you reach it.
- Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
- Civil servants are neither civil nor servile.
- Cleverness is serviceable for everything but sufficient for nothing.
- Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.
- Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
- Common sense is the least common of all senses.
- Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
- Conceit is God's gift to little men.
- Confidence is the feeling you had before you knew better.
- Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Construct a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.
- Cooperation is doing with a smile that which you have to do anyway.
- Crime is merely politics without the excuses.
- Crisis management works beautifully until an actual crisis occurs.
- Crystal balls aren't really very productive.
- Curiosity kills more mice than cats.
- Cynicism is but idealism gone sour in the face of frustration.
- Days you attend top-level meetings and days you get hiccups tend to fall on the same dates.
- Degeneration and evolution are not the same thing.
- Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
- Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.
- Did you know that if you maintain a cholesterol-free diet, your body makes its own cholesterol.
- Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Diogenes is still searching.
- Discover all unpredictable errors before they occur.
- Distrust your first impressions; they are invariably too favorable.
- Do not believe in miracles - rely upon them.
- Do unto others as they should do unto you but won't.
- Don't be afraid to take a big step. You cannot cross a chasm in two small steps.
- Don't be so humble...you aren't that great.
- Don't ever stand up to be counted or someone will take your seat.
- Don't get married if you are afraid of solitude.
- Don't hit a man when he's down unless you are damned certain he won't get up.
- Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
- Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
- Don't wear earmuffs in a bed of rattlesnakes.
- Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you. They're too busy worrying about what you are thinking of them.
- During Britain's "brain drain," not a single politician left the country.
- Each day the world turns over on someone who was just sitting on top of it.
- Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
- Economics is the only calling in which one can have a lifetime reputation as an expert without ever once being right.
- Education confers understanding, knowledge, and competence; schools confer degrees.
- Education means developing the mind, not stuffing the memory.
- Efficiency is the ability to do a job well plus the desire to do it better.
- Enthusiasm wanes, but dullness lasts forever.
- Eternity is a terrible thought...where will it all end?
- Even Mason and Dixon had to draw the line somewhere.
- Even paranoids have enemies.
- Even the most faithful believer can serve a false god.
- Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
- Every family tree has some sap.
- Every institution tends to perish through an excess of its own policy.
- Every society professes the existence of inalienable human rights; most, however, are somewhat vague as to just what they are.
- Everybody's death simplifies life for someone.
- Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
- Everyone serves a purpose in life, even if it is to be a horrible example.
- Everything alive either grows or dies.
- Everything comes to he who waits - providing he has either infinite patience or infinite wealth.
- Everything east of the San Andreas Fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean.
- Everything not forbidden by the laws of Nature is mandatory. Trouble is, nearly everything is forbidden.
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it is the only thing.
- Excellence is an option that is renewable.
- Expectations should not determine whether or not one acts, nor how.
- Expensive fertilizers that do nothing for your grass will give you the most gorgeous weeds you ever saw.
- Experience is a good teacher, but submits huge bills.
- Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
- Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
- Experimentation is the mother of confusion.
- Extinction is the ultimate fate of all species.
- Extreme boredom serves to cure boredom.
- Extreme sorrow laughs; extreme joy weeps.
- Extremely happy and extremely unhappy men are alike prone to grow hard-hearted.
- Facts cannot prevail against faith, or adamant folly.
- Failure is a measurement that depends on the standard applied.
- Faith is the bird that sings while it is still dark.
- Familiarity breeds consent.
- Fear is no great respecter of reason.
- Feed the wolf as you will; he will always look to the forest.
- First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
- Fish and guests smell in three days.
- Fisher's Law: Murphy was an optimist.
- Flattery is the sincerest form of lying.
- For a man of fortitude, there are no walls, only avenues.
- For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
- Freedom can be lost as surely tax by tax, regulation by regulation, as it can be bullet by bullet, missile by missile.
- Freedom is for everyone. Or no one.
- Freedom of the press is limited to those who have one.
- Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies accumulate.
- Frustration is not having anyone else to blame but one's self.
- Gambling: a way of getting nothing for something.
- Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
- Genius is 10 percent inspiration and 50 percent capital gains.
- Genius starts at the top and works up.
- Gentlemen's agreements can get very ungentlemanly.
- Get too many irons in your fire and you'll put it out.
- Give me an example of pro and con. "Progress and Congress".
- Given that Nature limited the intelligence of Man, it seems unfair that she did not limit the stupidity of Man.
- God can't alter history, so he created historians.
- God has Alzheimer's disease; he's forgotten that we exist.
- God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
- God must love stupid people, He made so many of them.
- Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.
- Government corruption seems always to be reported in the past tense.
- Government expands to absorb revenue, and then some.
- Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
- Half of conversation is listening.
- Halitosis is better than no breath at all.
- Happiness is a warm puppy with an empty bladder.
- Happiness is merely the remission of pain.
- Have a nice day...somewhere else.
- Having a good memory is useless unless you have something good to remember.
- He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not.
- He is all fault who has no fault at all.
- He lives long that lives until all are weary of him.
- He who dies with the most toys, wins!
- He who does many things makes many mistakes, but never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.
- He who endures, wins.
- He who has been bitten by six dogs is legitimately suspicious of the seventh.
- He who is most concerned is always the last to hear.
- He who laughs, lasts.
- He who leaves nothing to chance will do very few things wrong, but he will do very few things at all.
- He who lives on hope has a slender diet indeed.
- He who looks too far ahead stumbles over his own boots.
- He who loses his head is usually the last one to miss it.
- He who never sticks out neck, never wins by nose.
- He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to get ashes.
- He who spares the guilty threatens the innocent.
- He who would climb to the top must leave much behind.
- He who would leap high must take a long run.
- He who would pursue revenge should first dig two graves.
- Hell is not a place. Hell is what hurts worst.
- Help fight truth decay.
- Hindsight is always 20/20.
- History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
- History occurs twice - the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
- Honesty in politics is much like oxygen. The higher up you go, the scarcer it becomes.
- Honesty is almost always the best policy.
- How can you tell when a salesman is lying? When his lips are moving.
- How come nowadays the word "honesty" is generally preceded by the phrase "old-fashioned" ?
- How long a minute is depends upon which side of the bathroom door you're on.
- Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of social intercourse.
- I believe there is a higher power: it's called the government.
- I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer for my friends who exercise.
- I have decided to devote my entire career to looking for a career.
- I know my efforts deserve my goals, but are my goals worth my efforts?
- I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.
- If a cluttered desk is characteristic of a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk mean ?
- If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.
- If a problem causes too many meetings, then the meetings eventually become more important than the problem.
- If a sight is worth seeing, someone will build a highway to it.
- If all else fails, read the destructions.
- If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they couldn't reach a conclusion.
- If ambition doesn't hurt, you do not have it.
- If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
- If at first you don't succeed - so much for skydiving.
- If credit can possibly go to someone else, it will.
- If doctors' intellects were as big as doctors' egos, this would be a far healthier world.
- If every fool wore a crown, we would all be kings.
- If everything appears to be going well, you obviously don't know what the hell is going on.
- If everything seems to be going well, you've probably overlooked something.
- If facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
- If God thought that nudity was okay, we would have been born naked.
- If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes sooner.
- If it feels good, don't do it.
- If it is worth fighting for, it is worth fighting dirty for.
- If it jams - force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
- If it's not in the computer, then it doesn't exist.
- If it's rational, if it's logical, and if it makes good common sense, then it's simply not done.
- If man's best friend is the dog, where does that leave the rest of us?
- If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by the page number.
- If more than one person is responsible for a miscalculation, no one will be at fault.
- If one views his problem sufficiently closely, he will recognize himself as part of the problem.
- If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
- If people listened to themselves more often, they would talk less.
- If the customer wants vanilla, give him vanilla.
- If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, pound the table and yell like hell.
- If the first person who answers the phone can't handle your question, then it's a bureaucracy.
- If the gods had really intended men to fly, they'd have made it easier to get to the airport.
- If the government hasn't yet taxed, licensed, or regulated it, then it probably ain't worth anything.
- If the nation's economists were all laid end to end, they would point in all directions.
- If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
- If the thought of growing old bothers you, consider the alternative.
- If the universe is indeed insane, who is the asylum keeper ?
- If this is the land of the future, why are we all so given to nostalgia ?
- If truth were a matter of opinion, then the majority would always be right.
- If written correctly, legalese is perfectly incomprehensible.
- If you are feeling good, don't worry; you'll get over it.
- If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, then you obviously don't understand what's going on.
- If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
- If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
- If you cannot logically refute a man's arguments, not all is lost. You can always call him nasty names.
- If you cannot understand it, it is intuitively obvious.
- If you come up with a lemon, make lemonade.
- If you disinfect the pond, you kill the lilies.
- If you don't have a memory like an elephant, leave tracks like one.
- If you doubt that Rochesterians believe in God, watch how they drive.
- If you expected it to be easy, you should have become a politician.
- If you gave a monkey control of its environment, it would fill the universe with bananas.
- If you get up one time more than you fall you will make it through.
- If you have to tell people you're famous, you aren't.
- If you have to travel on a Titanic, why not go first class?
- If you live among the wolves, learn to howl like them.
- If you think that mental illness interferes with financial success, just look at the average television evangelist.
- If you think that no one cares that you're alive, try missing a few car payments.
- If you try to please everybody, nobody will like it.
- If you want something badly, that is how you get it.
- If you want to kill time, why not try working it to death?
- If you want to make people angry, lie to them. If you want to make them absolutely livid, then tell 'em the truth.
- If you're not rejected at least three times a week you're not really trying.
- If young women often do marry men like their fathers, no wonder their mothers cry at their weddings.
- If your parents didn't have children, odds are that you won't either.
- In a mad world, only greater madness succeeds.
- In a permissive society, the cream rises to the top...and so does the scum.
- In a world that runs on deceit, deception, and duplicity, the honest man is always at a disadvantage.
- In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
- In doing good, avoid notoriety. In doing evil, avoid self-awareness.
- In every real man a child is hidden who wants to play.
- In God we trust; all others pay cash.
- In hell, treason is the work of angels.
- In jealousy, there is often more self-love than love.
- In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don't need it.
- In order to reach the sea, a river often detours around many obstacles.
- In politics you can often be wrong but never in doubt.
- In some countries, Chaucer and Dante are the classics. In this country, it's a soft drink.
- In the final analysis, entropy always wins.
- In the long run, we are all dead.
- In the presence of great men, even fools hide their faults.
- In third-world politics, the people with the guns call the shots.
- Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.
- Indecision is the key to flexibility.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Inside every short man is a tall man doubled over in extreme pain.
- Instead of worrying about the boxes in your organizational chart, be concerned with the people who are boxed in.
- Institutions are more rarely overthrown from without, more often corroded from within.
- Instruction ends in the classroom, but education ends only with life.
- Interesting history is awful living.
- Intuition is reason in a hurry.
- Is there any truth to the rumor that everything is really okay?
- Isn't it strange that the same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.
- It doesn't much matter whom you marry, for tomorrow morning you discover that it was someone else.
- It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
- It is a grave error to allow any mechanical device to realize that you are in a hurry.
- It is always much harder to find a job than to keep one.
- It is axiomatic that even the strongest of men will fall before a pygmy with a submachine gun.
- It is better to add life to your years than it is to add years to your life.
- It is better to be envied than to be consoled.
- It is better to be hated than to be ignored.
- It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- It is better to resign from office than it is to die in office; that way, you get to hear some of the eulogies.
- It is difficult to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.
- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
- It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
- It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
- It is not necessary to fall into a well to know its depth.
- It is often easier to find the truth than it is to accept it.
- It is only in Aesop's fables that an elephant takes advice from a mouse.
- It is probably better to be insane with the rest of the world than to be sane alone.
- It is the manner, and not the content, that marks a gentleman.
- It is when the irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain belief that the enterprise of thought begins.
- It is wrong to repeat gossip, but what else can you do with it ?
- It may be that perpetual peace can only be brought about by perpetual war.
- It takes a mature person to be really young.
- It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- It takes twenty-five dumb animals to make a fur coat. and only one to wear it.
- It takes very little to make a woman happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep her that way.
- It's better to retire too soon than too late.
- It's difficult to soar with the eagles when you work with turkeys.
- It's not a matter of life and death - it's much more important than that.
- It's not how old you are but how you are old.
- It's not only who you know but what you know about who you know that counts.
- It's not social oppression that moves wild-eyed revolutionaries; it's envy, pure and simple.
- It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
- It's only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the pants.
- It's smart to pick your friends, but not to pieces.
- It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- Journalism, like prostitution, is a career in which just one foray makes a professional.
- Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no one is following you.
- Justice must not only be done; it must be seen to be believed.
- Keep laughing at death, and eventually at least you may die laughing.
- Keep your eyes open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Kill the moneylenders.
- Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Kissing a man without a moustache is like eating an egg without salt.
- Knowledge can cure ignorance, but intelligence cannot cure stupidity.
- Knowledge is power - if you know it about the right person.
- Labor disgraces no man, but often a man disgraces labor.
- Large brains can contain small minds.
- Last weke I cudn't even spel kumpooter programer and today I are one!
- Law remains long after justice flees.
- Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
- Leftover nuts never match leftover bolts.
- Less is more.
- Less of a good thing is sometimes better - ask anyone on a diet.
- Life is a learning experience; the diploma is your death certificate.
- Life is a temporary assignment.
- Life is a terminal condition.
- Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Life is what goes by while you are watching television.
- Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.
- Life's a bitch and then you die.
- Life's a bitch. But, then, consider the alternative.
- Little boys throw stones in jest. Little frogs die in earnest.
- Little things come in small packages.
- Live every day as though it were your last. One day, you'll be right.
- Live within your income, even if you must borrow to do it.
- Locks and keys are for honest people.
- Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
- Losing makes winning worthwhile.
- Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
- Love is a matter of chemistry; sex is a matter of physics.
- Love is like a pair of socks - you must have two and they have to match.
- Luck, it is said, dislikes working double shifts.
- Making this world better will gain you the greatest credit in the next one.
- Man does not live by bread alone. But he damned well doesn't live without it, either.
- Man is the only animal that blushes... or needs to.
- Many a man never fails because he never tries.
- Many know how to flatter; few know how to praise.
- Many times in order to receive something, you have to ask for it.
- Marriage is like burning the house down to toast the bread.
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Massive expenditures obscure the evidence of bad judgments.
- May you live in interesting times.
- Mayflies continually plot to topple the cedar.
- Measure twice 'cause you can only cut once.
- Measured with a micrometer. Marked with chalk. Cut with an axe.
- Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
- Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
- Men show their character best by the things they laugh at.
- Middle age is when you wonder if your warranty is running out.
- Miles aren't the only distance.
- Misery no longer loves company; nowadays it insists on it.
- Money is like manure - it is meant to be spread around.
- Money lent to a friend must be recovered from an enemy.
- Monotony is the law of Nature. Observe the monotonous manner in which the sun rises.
- More men are sheep in wolves' clothing than the other way around.
- More people are run down by gossip than by automobiles.
- Most men and nations die lying down.
- Most men have died without creating; not one has died without destroying.
- Most people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.
- Mother Nature applies all her rules...all the time.
- Motor gently through the greasemud, for there lurks the skid demon.
- Murphy's Golden Rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
- Murphy's Law: If it can go wrong, it will...at the worst possible time and in the worst possible place.
- My disappointments come in all sizes, to fit my hopes.
- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
- Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.
- Never argue with a fool...people may not be able to tell you apart.
- Never claim as a right that which you can ask as a favor.
- Never climb a fence when you can sit on it.
- Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
- Never eat prunes when you are famished.
- Never embezzle more than your employer can afford.
- Never get into a fight with an ugly person. He has nothing to lose.
- Never get mixed up with economists. Their thinking is muddy and they have bad breath.
- Never have so many people understood so little about so much.
- Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.
- Never let your sense of morals interfere with doing the right thing.
- Never let your studies interfere with your education.
- Never make the same mistake twice...there are so many new ones to make!
- Never marry a woman who prays too much.
- Never mistake good manners for good will.
- Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.
- Never question your wife's judgement...look whom she married.
- Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.
- Never step in anything soft.
- Never trust anyone who laughs at his own one-liners.
- Never try to teach a pig how to sing. It is a waste of time and it annoys the pig.
- Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Never, ever trust anyone under 30 or over 25.
- Never, ever, insult a telephone answering machine. They have ways of getting even.
- Never, ever, play leapfrog with a unicorn.
- New systems generate new problems.
- Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
- No amount of poor schooling can spoil a good student.
- No class of Americans has ever objected to any amount of government meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
- No executive ever devotes any effort to proving himself wrong.
- No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.
- No man's knowledge goes beyond his experience.
- No man's life, liberty, or property are safe whilst the legislature is in session.
- No matter how bad your kid is, he's still good for a tax exemption.
- No matter how long or how diligently you shop for a machine, once you've purchased it, it will be on sale for 30% less.
- No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
- No matter which way you spit, it's up wind.
- No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
- No name, no matter how simple, can be correctly understood over the phone.
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- No one ever found marvels by seeking them.
- No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
- No speech can be entirely bad if it is short enough.
- Nobody ever puts out a sign that says NICE DOG.
- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
- Not all the kookies are in the jar.
- Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Nothing in our history is plainer, or more tragic, than the gulf between cleverness and wisdom.
- Nothing in the universe arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.
- Nothing is as easy as it looks.
- Nothing is illegal if 100 businessmen decide to do it.
- Nothing is opened more often by mistake than the mouth.
- Nothing is really labor unless you would rather be doing something else.
- Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss put in an honest day's work.
- Nothing vouchered, nothing gained.
- Objectivity is in the eye of the beholder.
- Odds are, the phrase "It's none of my business" will be followed by "but".
- Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.
- Old age is like a burglar. It robs you of all the goodies and leaves the rubbish.
- On the edge of a precipice, only a fool does cartwheels.
- On the ONE day you take your secretary to lunch, your wife will be lunching in the same restaurant.
- Once upon a time, there were two Chinamen. Now look how many there are.
- Once you understand the problem, you find that it is worse than you expected.
- One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- One good thing about living on a farm is that you can fight with your wife and ain't nobody gonna hear.
- One good turn gets most of the blanket.
- One hand cannot applaud.
- One is tolerant only of that which does not concern him.
- One man plus courage is a majority.
- One may generally observe a singular accord between supercelestial ideas and subterranean behavior.
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- One of the great labor-saving devices of today is tomorrow.
- One of the hardest secrets for a man to keep is his opinion of himself.
- One sees more clearly backward than forward.
- One seventh of our lives is spent on Mondays.
- One thing you can say for kids: they don't go around showing pictures of their grandparents.
- One who has a clear conscience has a foggy memory.
- Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
- Opinions are like assholes - everybody has one.
- Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.
- Our architect's plans for plant renovation begin with a precision air strike.
- Pain is forgotten; insult lingers on.
- Peace is a premise the existence of which we have deduced from the intervals between wars.
- Peanut prizes inspire monkey contestants.
- People are always available for work in the past tense.
- People forget how fast you did a job, but remember how well you did it.
- People seldom plan to fail, but they often fail to plan.
- People seldom want to walk over you until you lie down.
- People use the most words when they are the least certain of what they are saying.
- People who cough a lot never go to the doctor...just to movies, concerts, and lectures.
- People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
- People who have no faults are terrible: there is no way to take advantage of them.
- People who live in a golden age complain that everything looks yellow.
- People, like turtles, make little progress without sticking their necks out.
- Poise is the act of raising the eyebrows instead of the roof.
- Policemen with private motives are dangerous.
- Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
- Political cunning should never be mistaken for intelligence.
- Politicians are much like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
- Politicians deal with the public on the basis of the mushroom policy: Keep them in the dark and feed them manure.
- Practical politics consists of ignoring the facts. Come to think of it, practical anything consists of that.
- Pray as if it were up to God, but work as if it were up to you.
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- Psychopaths aren't born. They are made.
- Put all your eggs in one basket, and WATCH THAT BASKET!
- Pygmies placed on giants' shoulders see more than the giants themselves.
- Rabbits dance at the funeral of the lion.
- Reality precedes perception. Except, of course, in southern California.
- Remarriage after divorce is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Remember the good old days When juvenile delinquency was observed mainly in juveniles?
- Remember when "There's something in the air" was just a figure of speech?
- Respect for ourselves guides our morals; deference to others governs our manners.
- Revenge is a dish best served cold.
- Roughing it is television without cable.
- Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.
- Saints engage in introspection while burly sinners run the world.
- Scandal, like hypocrisy, is bipartisan.
- Science has finally found what distinguishes Man from the other beasts: financial worries.
- Secret negotiations are usually neither.
- Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and finding the farmer's daughter.
- Sex: even when it's bad, it's good.
- Show me anything whereof it may be said "See, this is new," and I will show you it hath been.
- Shrink not from blasphemy - t'will pass for wit.
- Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
- Since few large pleasures are lent to us on a long lease, it is wise to cultivate a large undergrowth of small pleasures.
- Small things entertain small minds.
- Smile - it makes people wonder what you're thinking.
- Smooth seas never made a good sailor.
- Some people are always lost in thought; other people lack thoughts large enough to be lost in.
- Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
- Some people can look so busy that they seem indispensable.
- Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
- Some people fish in the Sea of Life without bait.
- Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.
- Some people will believe anything if it is whispered to them.
- Somehow I have to believe that I'm worth all the aggravation I cause myself.
- Sometimes I wish I could get a mirror with a better view.
- Sometimes it is good to be only a fly when giants are fighting for the heavens.
- Sometimes silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
- Sometimes the best defense is a skillful surrender.
- Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
- Speaking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
- Statistics can be used to support anything, especially statisticians.
- Strong words connote weak arguments.
- Succeeding is more satisfying than success.
- Success consists of reaching 40 before your waist does.
- Success has ruined many a good man.
- Success is a matter of luck; just ask any failure.
- Success is like a fart - you can only stand your own.
- Suicide is confession and confession is suicide.
- Support your local bloodhound. Get lost.
- Swallowing angry words is much easier than having to eat them.
- Sympathy is what you give a relative when you don't want to lend him cash.
- Take care which rut you choose; you'll be in it for the next ten years.
- Taking something with a grain of salt may raise your blood pressure.
- Tatoos are the common man's way of investing in art.
- Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
- Teaching is the fine art of imparting knowledge without possessing it.
- Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
- Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Television is to media what hydrogen bombs are to explosives.
- Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
- Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
- That which is crooked cannot be made straight, although there are psychotherapists who might disagree.
- That which we resist the most is what we become.
- The advantage to being a pessimist is that all your surprises are pleasant.
- The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.
- The average U.S. taxpayer is proud to be paying taxes. Of course, he could be just as proud for half the money.
- The best bilge pump in the world is a terrified sailor with a bucket.
- The best defense is a good offense.
- The best thing to hold onto in this world is each other.
- The best way to achieve immortality is by not dying.
- The best way to attract money is to give the appearance of having it.
- The best way to avoid growing old is not to be born so soon.
- The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
- The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
- The best way to make fire with two sticks is to insure that one of them is a match.
- The best way to save face is to keep the lower half closed.
- The bigger they are, the harder they punch.
- The biggest idiot can ask questions the smartest man cannot answer.
- The Boy Scout credo: sound mind, sound body...take your choice.
- The British parliament is called the "Mother of Legislatures". A somewhat similar term is often applied to Congress.
- The chief cause of divorce is matrimony.
- The chief cause of problems is solutions.
- The danger in being king is that after a while you begin to believe you really are one.
- The deepest and most important virtues are often the dullest ones.
- The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.
- The dentist never talks to his patients until the drill is in their mouths.
- The Devil's greatest triumph was convincing the modern world that he doesn't exist.
- The dimmer the light, the greater the scandal.
- The early bird suffers from insomnia.
- The fifteen minute morning coffee break is when your employees take a break from doing nothing.
- The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
- The first Christian gets the hungriest lions.
- The first great gift that we can bestow upon others is a good example.
- The first loss is the easiest.
- The first place in which to look for something is the last place in which you expect to find it.
- The future is when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now.
- The galaxy is full of dishonorable men ...Well, everyone's got to make a living.
- The gap between theory and practice is filled with apology.
- The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- The great classes of people will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
- The great tragedy of our era is not the significance of things but the insignificance of things.
- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- The healthy stomach is nothing if not conservative; few radicals have good digestions.
- The human race has only one effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- The ladder of success is easier to climb when laid flat.
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...
- The last time doctors went on strike, the death rate dropped thirty percent.
- The later you are for your flight, the more times you have to go through the metal detector.
- The lawyer's credo: if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit.
- The less influence you have, the longer you wait.
- The less you say, the less you have to take back.
- The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an oncoming train.
- The longer a man is wrong, the surer he is that he's right.
- The longer the letter, the less chance of its being read.
- The longer you wait in line, the greater the probability that it is the wrong line.
- The longest list has a final item.
- The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.
- The man who invented the eraser had the human race pretty well sized up.
- The man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
- The masses are the opium of religion.
- The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the probability that the competition already has the order.
- The more heavily a man should be taxed, the more power he has to avoid it.
- The more things you own, the more you are owned by things.
- The most beautiful days of the year are always the days just before and just after your vacation.
- The most exciting place to discover talent is within yourself.
- The most intelligent people we know are those who ask advice.
- The most successful journey is a dull journey.
- The most valuable gift you can give your family is a good example.
- The mouse dreams dreams that would terrify the cat.
- The number of a person's relatives is directly proportional to his fame.
- The number of employees in any work group tends to increase irrespective of the amount of work to be done.
- The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of what you're doing.
- The number of women a man find attractive is truly proportionate to his age.
- The old know more about being young than the young know about being old.
- The one time in the day that you lean back and relax is the one time the boss comes strolling through the plant.
- The only alternative to perseverance is failure.
- The only government handout that I want is the government's hand out of my pocket.
- The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race.
- The only one who got everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
- The only people that snobs want to know are those who don't want to know them.
- The only people to profit from the mistakes of others are biographers.
- The only perfect science is hindsight.
- The only thing worse than a male chauvinist pig is the female version.
- The only things in history that are inevitable are those that have already happened.
- The only time some people work like a horse is when their boss rides them.
- The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.
- The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.
- The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank....The really big chunks always rise to the top.
- The other line always moves faster.
- The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning.
- The person who marries for money generally ends up earning it.
- The person who snores the loudest will fall asleep first.
- The pot at the end of the rainbow is not Acapulco Gold.
- The price of total freedom is total anarchy. The price of total security is total enslavement.
- The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
- The probability of a piece of bread falling with the buttered side down is proportional to the cost of the carpet.
- The probability of your alarm not going off increases in direct proportion to the importance of your 8:00am meeting.
- The promises of maniacs, like those of salesmen, are not safely relied upon.
- The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet 'em.
- The rat race is over. The rats won.
- The real crime in education today is not the way we treat teachers but whom we allow to be teachers.
- The real objective of a committee isn't to reach a decision but to avoid it.
- The real outrage today isn't what's illegal. It's what is legal.
- The reason the way of the sinner is hard is because it is so crowded.
- The reason why worry kills more people than work does is that more people worry than work.
- The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.
- The road to the patent office is paved with good inventions.
- The Russians will never invade us...there's no place to park.
- The saddest of words: I always wanted to but never did.
- The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
- The secret of selling yourself is to have a product you truly believe in.
- The secret of staying young is finding an age that you really like and then sticking with it.
- The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
- The ship of state is the only ship that leaks at the top.
- The shortest distance between two points is generally under repair.
- The smaller the issue, the bigger the fight.
- The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
- The smallest handcuff in the world is a wedding ring.
- The sooner man begins to spend his wealth, the better he uses it.
- The strangest of all birth defects is an inability to see things my way.
- The strongest part of any paper form is the perforation.
- The successful enjoyment of vice requires training and long practice.
- The sun ariseth and the sun goeth down, and the same things come alike to the righteous and the wicked.
- The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
- The trouble with resisting temptation is that it may never come again.
- The truth is always the strongest argument.
- The universe is governed by a committee; no one man could make that many mistakes.
- The universe is simple - it's the explanation that's complex.
- The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
- The whole of life is futile unless you regard it is a sporting proposition.
- The world gets better every day, then worse again in the evening.
- The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
- The world is disgracefully managed; one hardly knows to whom to complain.
- The world is full of surprises, very few of which are pleasant.
- The worm in the sour apple doesn't know any better.
- The worst thing about ignorance is its insistency.
- There are no absolute answers to life - just revelations.
- There are no moral messages in Nature.
- There are no winners in life; only survivors.
- There are only four basic plots in life, and nine in literature.
- There are those who make things happen. There are those who watch things happen. And there are those who wonder what happened.
- There are three rules for successfully managing people: Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- There are three types of deliberate falsehoods: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
- There are two periods in which Congress does no business: one is before the holidays and the other is after.
- There is a difference between an open mind and a hole in the head.
- There is a time for everything. Mostly, the wrong time.
- There is always free cheese in a mousetrap.
- There is always one more son of a bitch than you counted on.
- There is an optimal size for any project, and it is always bigger than you can afford.
- There is no truth in the rumor that man is immortal.
- There is nothing like a grievance to sharpen an old man's wits.
- There is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action.
- There is nothing wrong with you that an expensive surgical operation cannot prolong.
- There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
- There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.
- There's no intelligent life down here.
- There's nothing wrong with gluttony...providing you don't overdo it.
- There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.
- These days, an education is essential for career success. Unless, of course, you run for Congress.
- They don't invite you to the White House for a drink because they think you are thirsty.
- They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
- Things are more like they are now than they ever have been before.
- Things get worse under pressure.
- Those things are better which are perfected by Nature than those which are finished by art.
- Those who beat their swords into plowshares generally end up plowing for those who didn't.
- Those who can - do. Those who cannot - teach.
- Those who can't teach - administer. Those who can't administer - run for public office.
- Those who do not follow are dragged.
- Those who do not learn from history often end up making it.
- Those who like sausage or political policy should not watch either being made.
- Those who think they know it all upset those of us who do.
- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Time is a great teacher, but it kills all its pupils.
- Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- To a little fish, the waters are always deep.
- To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- To a weary horse, even his own tail is a burden.
- To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
- To err is human; to really foul things up takes a computer.
- To find a policeman in a hurry, double-park.
- To hear tell a hundred times is not as good as once seeing.
- To make a speech immortal you don't have to make it everlasting.
- To rest is to rust.
- To spot the true expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
- To understand the clay is not to understand the pot.
- Today's conservative is yesterday's liberal who got mugged last night.
- Too many people confuse free speech with loose talk.
- Too much of anything is wonderful.
- Trust everybody, but always cut the cards.
- Truth is a hard master to serve, for the more devotedly you serve her, the more she hurts you.
- Truth is very precious, so salesmen and politicians use it very sparingly.
- Two can live as cheaply as one... for half as long.
- Two's company and three's the result.
- Tyranny is always better organized than freedom is.
- Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty.
- Universities are full of knowledge. The freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, so knowledge accumulates.
- Variables won't; constants aren't.
- Verbal agreements frequently lead to verbal disagreements.
- Virginity can be cured.
- Virtue does not lend itself to the same verbal enthusiasms that vice does.
- Virtue is a social liability.
- Wait until it is night before saying it has been a fine day.
- We ain't cheap, but by gosh, we're good!
- We are all passengers in the leaky rowboat of life. So, bail faster, damn it!
- We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
- We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
- We do not know who first discovered water. However, we are confident that it was not a fish.
- We don't know one millionth of one per cent about anything.
- We know what we are, but not what we may be.
- We live in a world where nothing is impossible, except peace and happiness.
- We put up with being surpassed more easily than with being equaled.
- We should go metric every inch of the way.
- We're all going down the same road in different directions.
- We're all part of the human race, but racing faster won't make us more human.
- What do you call 500 bureaucrats at the bottom of the Potomac river? A start.
- What many orators lack in depth they give you in length.
- What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
- What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
- What we are is God's gift to us - what we become is our gift to God.
- What we learn after we know it all is what counts.
- Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
- Whatever is not nailed down is the government's. Whatever the government can pry loose is not nailed down.
- Whatever their faults, the Communists never created canned laughter.
- When a broken machine is demonstrated for the repairman, it will work perfectly.
- When a man dies, he does not die just of the disease he has; he dies of his whole life.
- When a man's wife learns to understand him, she stops listening to him.
- When all else fails, read the instructions.
- When all is said and done, more has been said than done.
- When an oyster is irritated, it makes a pearl.
- When anything is used to its full potential, it will break.
- When comes the revolution, things will be different - not better, just different.
- When everybody is somebody, then nobody is anybody.
- When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.
- When in trouble or in doubt, Run in circles, yell and shout.
- When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
- When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovation.
- When policy fails, try thinking.
- When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse.
- When smashing monuments, always save the pedestals - they come in handy.
- When the hounds bay, the fox and the rabbit are brothers.
- When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole very near by.
- When the old dog barks, better look out the window.
- When there is no danger in fighting, there is no glory in winning.
- When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
- When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.
- When you do not know what you are doing, do it neatly.
- When you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.
- When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.
- When you're through changing, you're through.
- When you've read about one train wreck, you've read about them all.
- When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- Whenever a man casts a longing eye at public office, a rottenness appears in his conduct.
- Whenever you learn all the answers, they change all the questions.
- Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives.
- Where you stand on an issue depends upon where you sit.
- Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
- Who mourns the falling of a single leaf?
- Whoever lies with dogs rises with fleas.
- Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
- Whoever tries for great objects must suffer something.
- Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
- Why do they always start off the evening news with "Good evening" when all they do is tell you why it isn't ?
- Why is it that time softens some people and hardens others?
- Why is there always so much month left at the end of the money ?
- Why long for glory, which one despises as soon as one has it ?
- Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid perfection.
- Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
- Women's taste in neckties is as bad as men's in chintz.
- Work is the curse of the drinking man.
- Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling.
- Workers these days don't mind putting in an honest day's work. Trouble is, it takes 'em a week to do it.
- Would that reason were as contagious as emotion.
- Would you fly in an airliner designed and built by the lowest bidder?
- Years ago, the symbol of America was the bald eagle. Today, it is the beer bottle on the side of the road.
- You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile.
- You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word.
- You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.
- You can never discard too many bad ideas.
- You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
- You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
- You can say this for death and taxes: when you are done with one, you're done with the other.
- You can't believe everything you hear, but you can repeat it.
- You can't drown your troubles, not the real ones, because if they are real, they can swim.
- You can't have a clear head when there is a sword hanging over it.
- You can't tell a book by its movie.
- You can't win them all, but you can sure lose them all.
- You can't win. You can't even break even.
- You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
- You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late.
- You cannot reason a man out of that which he has not been reasoned into.
- You cannot tame a tiger by pulling but one of his teeth.
- You cannot tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it.
- You don't have to be a cannibal to get fed up with people.
- You have your problems, and I have yours.
- You know that it's gonna be a bad day when you call Suicide Prevention and they put you on hold.
- You know you are in trouble when you come to work in the morning and the boss tells you not to take off your coat.
- You know you are in trouble when your only son tells you he wishes Anita Bryant would mind her own business.
- You know you're getting old when everything dries up or leaks.
- You may as well take a person's money as his time.
- You may not get what you pay for, but you always pay for what you get.
- You never know how many friends you have until you own a house at the beach.
- You only go around once, and there's not enough gusto for everyone.
- You only have a problem if you think it is a problem.
- You rarely observe a mob rushing across town to do a good deed.
- You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
- You've one mouth and two ears...use them in that proportion.
- You've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.
- Your freedom to swing your arm ends where my nose begins.
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