Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
Coco Chanel
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
Coco Chanel
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
Nathan Collins
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them
Proverb
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz
Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
Sir John Lubbock
We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
Anon.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.
Boris Marshalov
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton John Sheen
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.
Source Unknown
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.
Yiddish Proverb
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Source Unknown
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Geoffrey Cottrell
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!
Richard M. DeVos
A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
Confucius
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
Lord Chesterfield
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat
Ann Landers
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.
Proverb
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