Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
Sir Walter Raleigh
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
Christopher Lasch
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Hubert Humphrey
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter Drucker
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Proverb
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Confucius
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Lao-Tzu
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Charles Swindoll
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
Francis Bacon
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.
George Washington, 1790 in a letter to his nephew
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter Drucker
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout
One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.
Marvel Bell
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Bern Williams
Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
Danish proverb
The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Charles Handy
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey
Liars need to have good memories.
Algernon Sidney
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