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• 1. Reformatted for gjots from the original Psion files quotes.s5
• 2. A baby is Gods opinion that life should go on.'
• 3. A bad casting call: Cant act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little.'
• 4. A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
• 5. A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.
• 6. A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
• 7. A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.
• 8. A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
• 9. A Classic is something that everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read.
• 10. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
• 11. A committee is a group of the unwilling
• 12. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
• 13. A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
• 14. A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.
• 15. A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
• 16. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
• 17. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• 18. A day without sunshine is like night.
• 19. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a womans birthday but never remembers her age.'
• 20. A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
• 21. A failure is a man who has blundered
• 22. A feature is a bug with seniority.
• 23. A Frenchman must always be talking
• 24. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
• 25. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him
• 26. A goalscorer should let fly as soon as he sees the goal.
• 27. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
• 28. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
• 29. A good listener is not only popular everywhere
• 30. A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
• 31. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
• 32. A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning
• 33. A high-class horse could not win a race with a feather on his back if he is not in condition.
• 34. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
• 35. A law is valuable not because it is law
• 36. A leader is a dealer in hope.
• 37. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they dont necessarily want to go but ought to be.'
• 38. A little Government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.
• 39. A little less complaint and whining
• 40. A little rebellion now and then is a good thing
• 41. A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
• 42. A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good
• 43. A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then hes finished.'
• 44. A man is known by the books he reads.
• 45. A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.
• 46. A man is the sum of his actions
• 47. A man isnt poor if he can still laugh.'
• 48. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes
• 49. A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car
• 50. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
• 51. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
• 52. A mans best friends are his ten fingers.'
• 53. A mans feet should be planted in his country'
• 54. A mans mother is his misfortune'
• 55. A metaphor is like a simile.
• 56. A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating
• 57. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
• 58. A plausible impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
• 59. A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
• 60. A poor life this if
• 61. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
• 62. A precedent embalms a principle.
• 63. A religion is a heresy with an adequate army.
• 64. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
• 65. A sequel is an admission that youve been reduced to imitating yourself.'
• 66. A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. Chester Nimitz
• 67. A single death is a tragedy
• 68. A single fact can spoil a good argument.
• 69. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
• 70. A Stanford research group advertised for participants in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They were looking for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder. The response was gratifying; they got 3
• 71. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
• 72. A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight
• 73. A wise and frugal government
• 74. Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
• 75. Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to
• 76. Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore
• 77. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
• 78. Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good
• 79. Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apples sake'
• 80. Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
• 81. Advice to persons about to marry. Dont.'
• 82. After youve done a thing the same way for two years'
• 83. Again and again
• 84. Alcohol is a very necessary article....It makes life bearable for millions of people who could not endure its existence if they were quite sober.'
• 85. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
• 86. All colours will agree in the dark.
• 87. All easy problems have already been solved.
• 88. All government
• 89. All lifes answers are on TV.'
• 90. All mankind loves a lover.
• 91. All men are liable to error; and most men are
• 92. All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear
• 93. All men think all men are mortal but themselves.
• 94. All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
• 95. All right
• 96. All the things I really like to do are either illegal
• 97. All this buttoning and unbuttoning.
• 98. All we are saying is give peace a chance.
• 99. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. Thats his.'
• 100. All you have to do to protect yourself from radiation is to go down to the bottom of your swimming pool and hold your breath.
• 101. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
• 102. Always be a little kinder than necessary.
• 103. Always be nice to those younger than you
• 104. Always borrow money from a pessimist; they dont expect to be paid back.'
• 105. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
• 106. Always do what you are afraid to do.
• 107. Always go to other peoples funerals'
• 108. Always listen to experts. Theyll tell you what can't be done'
• 109. Always question. Always analyse. But in the end
• 110. Always try to do things in chronological order; its less confusing that way.'
• 111. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.
• 112. Americas abundance was not created by public sacrifices to æthe common good'
• 113. Americans have different ways of saying things. They say elevator
• 114. Americans
• 115. An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way
• 116. An armed society is a polite society.
• 117. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didnt happen today.'
• 118. An Englishman
• 119. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made
• 120. An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
• 121. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
• 122. An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
• 123. An honest politician is one who
• 124. An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
• 125. An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
• 126. Anarchy may not be the best form of government
• 127. And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.) Dave Barry
• 128. And now the sequence of events in particular order.
• 129. And
• 130. And so
• 131. And when we think we lead
• 132. Any colour - so long as its black.'
• 133. Any coward can sit in his home and criticise a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather
• 134. Any fool can tell the truth
• 135. Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community'
• 136. Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
• 137. Any shot that scores is a good shot.
• 138. Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
• 139. Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points
• 140. Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. No one can count the apples in a seed.
• 141. Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
• 142. Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
• 143. Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
• 144. Anyone who isnt confused really doesn't understand the situation.'
• 145. Anything is good and useful if its made of chocolate.'
• 146. Anything is possible. I have seen Bestie refuse a drink and Ive seen Emlyn Hughes buy one.'
• 147. Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.
• 148. Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
• 149. Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in movies.
• 150. As a general rule
• 151. As a mother
• 152. As a rule
• 153. As long as people will accept crap
• 154. As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
• 155. As of 1992
• 156. As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
• 157. Ask a man which way he is going to vote
• 158. Asking æwho ought to be the boss is like asking æwho ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously'
• 159. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
• 160. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
• 161. Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
• 162. Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
• 163. Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
• 164. Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
• 165. Be like a duck. Calm on the surface
• 166. Be polite to all
• 167. Be smarter than other people
• 168. Be wisely worldly
• 169. Beauty is only skin deep
• 170. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
• 171. Because everyone uses language to talk
• 172. Because just as good morals
• 173. Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.
• 174. Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better than political opportunist slamming hate horse shit in the public park.
• 175. Beginning today
• 176. Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are
• 177. Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
• 178. Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
• 179. Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
• 180. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
• 181. Between two evils
• 182. Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
• 183. Bite the wax tadpole.
• 184. Bobby Knight told me this: There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offence. In other words a good offence wins.
• 185. Boys will be boys
• 186. Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden
• 187. Brevity is the best recommendation of speech
• 188. Brevity is the soul of wit.
• 189. Bumper sticker: Auntie Em: Hate you
• 190. Bumper sticker: DANGER! I drive like you do.
• 191. Business is like a wheelbarrow. Nothing ever happens until you start pushing.
• 192. But Im not so think as you drunk I am.'
• 193. By and large
• 194. By the time you say youre his'
• 195. By swallowing evil words unsaid
• 196. Call it what you will
• 197. Can God write a check for a sum so large that he cant cover it? I can. If God can't'
• 198. Can heresy itself be a legitimate religion?
• 199. Censorship
• 200. Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure
• 201. Chance favours the prepared mind.
• 202. Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
• 203. Character is doing whats right when nobody's looking.'
• 204. Character is much easier kept than recovered.
• 205. Character is power.
• 206. Checks and balances does not mean writing the checks while ignoring the balances.
• 207. Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!
• 208. Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
• 209. Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
• 210. Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre.
• 211. Class has a sense of humour. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or
• 212. Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
• 213. Clone
• 214. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
• 215. Coles Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.'
• 216. College isnt the place to go for ideas.'
• 217. Comedy is tragedy plus time.
• 218. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
• 219. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
• 220. Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.
• 221. Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
• 222. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems
• 223. Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost.
• 224. Condense soup
• 225. Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
• 226. Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
• 227. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
• 228. Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
• 229. Conscious is when you are aware of something
• 230. Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
• 231. Conversation is one of the greatest pleasures of life. But it wants leisure.
• 232. Copy from one
• 233. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
• 234. Courage is grace under pressure.
• 235. Courage is resistance to fear
• 236. Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim
• 237. Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
• 238. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word
• 239. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
• 240. Democracy is mob rule
• 241. Depend on the rabbits foot if you will'
• 242. Destiny is not a matter of chance
• 243. Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience
• 244. Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
• 245. Diligence is the mother of good luck.
• 246. Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice Doggie! till you can find a rock. Wynn Catlin
• 247. Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war
• 248. Do I not like that !
• 249. Do not follow where the path may lead....go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• 250. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
• 251. Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
• 252. Do you know what I like about the Irish team ? They are the only team to who come off at the end of the game and ask Who won ?. Spike Milligan
• 253. Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
• 254. Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
• 255. Dogs come when they are called. Cats have answering machines and may get back to you.
• 256. Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
• 257. Dont accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.'
• 258. Dont do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison'
• 259. Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.'
• 260. Dont have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.'
• 261. Dont let school interfere with your education.'
• 262. Dont Panic.'
• 263. Dorothy MacMillian: ôWhat are you looking forward to now ?ö Madame de Gualle: ôA penisö General de Gualle: ôMy dear
• 264. Doubt is not a pleasant condition
• 265. Doubt is uncomfortable
• 266. Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
• 267. Drawing on my fine command of language
• 268. Due to budgetary restraints
• 269. Eagles dont flock - you have to find them one at a time.'
• 270. Economics is war pursued by other means.
• 271. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
• 272. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
• 273. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.
• 274. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
• 275. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
• 276. Education makes people easy to lead
• 277. Employ thy time well
• 278. England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
• 279. Eschew obfuscation.
• 280. Even if youre on the right track'
• 281. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it
• 282. Every great mistake has a half-way moment
• 283. Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
• 284. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labour of others
• 285. Every revolutionary idea - in science
• 286. Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
• 287. Every woman should marry - and no man.
• 288. Everybody wants to go to heaven
• 289. Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
• 290. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.
• 291. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.
• 292. Everythings in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.'
• 293. Evil will always triumph
• 294. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared
• 295. Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labour of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
• 296. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
• 297. Excuses are like assholes
• 298. Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
• 299. Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
• 300. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
• 301. Expenditure rises to meet income.
• 302. Experience is a dear teacher
• 303. Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
• 304. Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
• 305. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes
• 306. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
• 307. Failing doesnt make you a failure. Giving up'
• 308. Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.
• 309. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman
• 310. Failure is the opportunity to begin again
• 311. Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic without looking to see whether the seeds move.
• 312. Far better is it to dare mighty things
• 313. Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
• 314. Fidelity purchased with money
• 315. Fight for your opinions
• 316. Fight organized crime: stamp out the IRS.
• 317. Figures wont lie'
• 318. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. H. Jackson Brown
• 319. Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy
• 320. Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
• 321. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
• 322. Football is the fourth most popular sport in America after American Football
• 323. For centuries
• 324. For seven and a half years Ive worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex ...uh...setbacks.'
• 325. For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
• 326. For NASA
• 327. Forgive your enemies
• 328. Form is transitory
• 329. Frank doesnt have to fight in January. There are 12 other months in the year.'
• 330. Frank OConner grows on you'
• 331. Free people
• 332. Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
• 333. Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.
• 334. Friendship is like money
• 335. From each according to his abilities
• 336. From the moment I picked it until the moment I laid it down
• 337. Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
• 338. Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
• 339. Genius is one per cent inspiration
• 340. Genius may have its limitations
• 341. Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it
• 342. Get your facts first
• 343. Getting divorced just because you dont love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.'
• 344. Give me control over a nations currency'
• 345. Give me six lines written by the most honourable of men
• 346. Give us the luxuries of life and well dispense with the necessaries.'
• 347. Given a choice between two theories
• 348. Go peacefully amongst the things. Edwina (Eddie) on ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS
• 349. Go to Heaven for the climate
• 350. God has been replaced
• 351. God
• 352. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
• 353. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee
• 354. Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
• 355. Good government generally begins in the family
• 356. Good judgement comes from experience
• 357. Good leaders must first become good servants.
• 358. Good luck is a lazy mans estimate of a worker's success.'
• 359. Good order is the foundation of all things.
• 360. Good taste is better than bad taste
• 361. Goodwill and artillery will get you more than goodwill alone anytime.
• 362. Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognise
• 363. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
• 364. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves'
• 365. Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
• 366. Great is the art of beginning
• 367. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
• 368. Guidelines for bureaucrats: When in charge; ponder; When in trouble; delegate; When in doubt; mumble.
• 369. Gun control is hitting your target.
• 370. Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.
• 371. Half of the people in the world are below average.
• 372. Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get
• 373. Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
• 374. Hartleys Second Law: Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.'
• 375. Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
• 376. Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a - it is different than the other 49 states. Well
• 377. He didnt say that. He read what was given to him in a speech.'
• 378. Happy campers you have been
• 379. He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
• 380. He first deceased; She for a little tried. To live without him; Liked it not
• 381. He found it inconvenient to be poor.
• 382. He has achieved success who has worked well
• 383. He is truly wise who gains wisdom from anothers mishap.'
• 384. He laughs best who laughs last.
• 385. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
• 386. He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honour.
• 387. He who asks is a fool for five minutes
• 388. He who hesitates is not only lost
• 389. He who loses control
• 390. He who opens a school door
• 391. He who talks much cannot talk well.
• 392. Hes going to chance his arm with his left foot.'
• 393. Hes still green behind the ears.'
• 394. Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself.
• 395. Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
• 396. Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
• 397. Hindsight is an exact science.
• 398. His doubts are better than most peoples certainties.'
• 399. History is more or less bunk.
• 400. History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs
• 401. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
• 402. History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
• 403. History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
• 404. Hitch your wagon to a star.
• 405. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
• 406. Hope is a good breakfast
• 407. Horses just naturally have mohawk haircuts.
• 408. How can you tell when sour cream goes bad?
• 409. How do you tell a communist? Well
• 410. How noble the law
• 411. How to store your baby walker: First
• 412. Humour is the shortest distance between two people.
• 413. I am a great believer in luck
• 414. I am a jelly doughnut
• 415. I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
• 416. I am honoured today to begin my first term as the Governor of Baltimore - that is Maryland. William Donald Schaefer
• 417. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
• 418. I am not wanting to make too long speech tonight as I am knowing your old English saying
• 419. I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything
• 420. I am providing you with a copulation of answers to several questions raisedà
• 421. I am ready to meet my maker
• 422. I am responsible only to God and history.
• 423. I am very patriotic. Ive committed one crime in my life. John Walker'
• 424. I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
• 425. I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
• 426. I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
• 427. I believe in unions and I believe in non-unions.
• 428. I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
• 429. I came
• 430. I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
• 431. I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.
• 432. I cannot give you the formula for success
• 433. I cannot live without books.
• 434. I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.
• 435. I couldnt find the remote control to the remote control.'
• 436. I couldnt help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake. J. Danforth Quayle'
• 437. I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
• 438. I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.
• 439. I didnt intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm jut here for the drugs.'
• 440. I disapprove of what you say
• 441. I do have a political agenda. Its to have as few regulations as possible.'
• 442. I do not mind lying
• 443. I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think it is the only thing.
• 444. I dont have to practice what I preach 'cause I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to!'
• 445. I dont know the key to success'
• 446. I dont make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.'
• 447. I dont believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights'
• 448. I dont even know what street Canada is on.'
• 449. I dont want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.'
• 450. I either want less corruption
• 451. I favour the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
• 452. I feel sorry for Cupids mother. How'd you like to try to toilet-train an armed kid who can fly?'
• 453. I forget what I was taught. I only remember what Ive learnt.'
• 454. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
• 455. I have enough money to last me the rest of my life
• 456. I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
• 457. I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
• 458. I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
• 459. I have often regretted my speech
• 460. I have one great fear in my heart
• 461. I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
• 462. I have the worlds largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.'
• 463. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
• 464. I hold it true
• 465. I hope I stand for anti-bigotry
• 466. I hope the referees next crap is a hedgehog.'
• 467. I keep seeing lousy films and saying to myself
• 468. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought
• 469. I know thats a secret'
• 470. I like a man who grins when he fights.
• 471. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
• 472. I like the silent church before the service begins
• 473. I like thinking big. If youre going to be thinking anything'
• 474. I like to give home-made gifts. Which one of the kids would you like?
• 475. I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
• 476. I love Americans
• 477. I love California
• 478. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
• 479. I may argue with my brother
• 480. I mean to live my life an obedient man
• 481. I never deny
• 482. I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
• 483. I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever
• 484. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
• 485. I place economy among the first and important virtues
• 486. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
• 487. I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
• 488. I stand by all the misstatements that Ive made.'
• 489. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders
• 490. I still miss my ex-wife
• 491. I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
• 492. I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
• 493. I think that people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
• 494. I think that
• 495. I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary
• 496. I think
• 497. I think
• 498. I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job George Bush
• 499. I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session.
• 500. I want you to take your balls in your hand and bounce them on the floor and then throw them as high as you can. Now
• 501. I was going 70 miles an hour and got stopped by a cop who said
• 502. I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I dont know.'
• 503. I was never less alone than when by myself.
• 504. I was recently on a tour of Latin America
• 505. I went to the eye doctor and found out I needed glasses for reading. So
• 506. I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
• 507. I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of bo
• 508. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
• 509. I would bet that the Great San Francisco Glaucoma Epidemic of 1992 will be one for the history books.
• 510. I would have made a good pope.
• 511. I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• 512. I would like to express my sympathy to all those impacted by this disaster.
• 513. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
• 514. I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
• 515. I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
• 516. Id like to help you out. Which way did you come in?'
• 517. Id rather live nowhere than in the suburbs of nowhere.'
• 518. Ill get a life as soon as I can find the FTP site.'
• 519. Im enclosing a few densely written and colourfully printed sheets about the program'
• 520. Im hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah'
• 521. Im in favour of legalising drugs. According to my values system'
• 522. Im not against the blacks and a lot of the good blacks will attest to that. Evan Mecham'
• 523. Im so na´ve about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realised I didn't understand'
• 524. Im the consul for information'
• 525. Ive got a mind like a...what's that thing called that you use to strain spaghetti?'
• 526. If a man hasnt discovered something he will die for'
• 527. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover
• 528. If a tree falls on a laboratory mouse
• 529. If all economists were laid end to end
• 530. If all men knew what others say of them
• 531. If all you have is a hammer
• 532. If anything goes bad
• 533. If at first you dont succeed'
• 534. If God wanted me to touch my toes
• 535. If I ever needed a brain transplant
• 536. If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good
• 537. If I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced that were in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.'
• 538. If ignorance is bliss
• 539. If it aint broke'
• 540. If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind
• 541. If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law
• 542. If people really liked to work
• 543. If the blind lead the blind
• 544. If the car industry behaved like the computer industry over the last 30 years
• 545. If the children are untaught
• 546. If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough
• 547. If the human brain were so simple we could understand it
• 548. If the odds are a million to one against something occurring
• 549. If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
• 550. If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad
• 551. If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualise world peace for an hour
• 552. If we desire respect for the law
• 553. If we dont succeed'
• 554. If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt
• 555. If you are sure you understand everything that is going on
• 556. If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event
• 557. If you can count your money you dont have a billion dollars.'
• 558. If you cant stand the heat'
• 559. If you cant convince them'
• 560. If you could have a large sum of money
• 561. If you dont learn to laugh at trouble'
• 562. If you dont make mistakes'
• 563. If you hear an onion ring
• 564. If you judge poeple
• 565. If you like laws and sausages
• 566. If you love something
• 567. If you see a snake
• 568. If you sit down and dont see a fish at the table'
• 569. If you think education is expensive
• 570. If you think nobody cares if youre alive'
• 571. If you think you can
• 572. If you want to get a good idea
• 573. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller
• 574. If you want to succeed
• 575. If you were asked a hypothetical question
• 576. If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable
• 577. If you wish to be a success in the world
• 578. If youre not part of the solution'
• 579. If
• 580. Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
• 581. Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
• 582. Imagination is more important than knowledge
• 583. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor
• 584. If it is to be
• 585. In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
• 586. In a survey taken several years ago
• 587. In a way
• 588. In a world of private property
• 589. In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
• 590. In an Orkin Exterminating Co. survey of what pests Pittsburghers fear most
• 591. In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
• 592. In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese
• 593. In California
• 594. In case of fire
• 595. In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country
• 596. In every country and every age
• 597. In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling
• 598. In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
• 599. In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
• 600. In the fight between you and the world
• 601. In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
• 602. In the long run we are all dead.
• 603. In theory
• 604. In this theatre of mans life'
• 605. In this world
• 606. In time of war the first casualty is truth.
• 607. In times like these
• 608. In war there is no substitute for victory.
• 609. In years to come the phrase tight as Grahams Arsenal may replace the present colourful colloquialism describing someone reluctant to part with money. Paul Johnson'
• 610. Include the success of others in your dreams for your own success.
• 611. Infinite patience brings immediate results.
• 612. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
• 613. Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate; he attacks when it is abundant.
• 614. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
• 615. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
• 616. Is the glass half empty
• 617. Is the word spec short for specification
• 618. Is tired old clichÚ one? Anonymous
• 619. It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself
• 620. It doesnt matter if a cat is black or white'
• 621. It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
• 622. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
• 623. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
• 624. It is a great ability to be able to conceal ones ability.'
• 625. It is a sin to believe evil of others
• 626. It is always the best policy to tell the truth
• 627. It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
• 628. It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
• 629. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
• 630. It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
• 631. It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes
• 632. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
• 633. It is better to wear out than to rust out.
• 634. It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
• 635. It is easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.'
• 636. It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
• 637. It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
• 638. It is good to be without vices
• 639. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
• 640. It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
• 641. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
• 642. It is not enough for a handful of experts to attempt the solution of a problem
• 643. It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
• 644. It is not the critic who counts
• 645. It is not true that life is one damn thing after another...Its one damn thing over and over.'
• 646. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
• 647. It is only through labour and painful effort
• 648. It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
• 649. It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
• 650. It is the fight alone that pleases us
• 651. It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
• 652. It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
• 653. It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
• 654. It is well that war is so terrible
• 655. It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
• 656. It isnt pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.'
• 657. It isnt the fact that the cats like to hang around while sex is going on that annoys me: it's those little score cards they hold up afterwards.'
• 658. It isnt the incompetent who destroys an organisation. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.'
• 659. It isnt the people you fire who make your life miserable'
• 660. It isnt what they say about you'
• 661. It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.
• 662. It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
• 663. It sure would be nice if we got a day off for the presidents birthday'
• 664. It takes a virile man to make a chicken pregnant. Perdue chicken ad
• 665. It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
• 666. It was one of the things I was always going to take care of
• 667. It was only after their population of fifty mysteriously shrank to eight that the other seven dwarfs began to suspect Hungry.
• 668. It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology
• 669. Its a small world'
• 670. Its a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs.'
• 671. Its a tale of two systems'
• 672. Its a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing'
• 673. Its a well known fact that computing devices such as the abacus were invented thousands of years ago. But it's not well known that the first use of a common computer protocol occurred in the Old Testament. This'
• 674. Its bad manners to apply cosmetics in public. It reminds people you need them...'
• 675. Its deja vu all over again.'
• 676. Its evolution'
• 677. Its great to be great but it's greater to be human.'
• 678. Its hard to make a program foolproof because fools are so ingenious.'
• 679. Its hard to seize the day when you first have to grapple with the morning.'
• 680. Its national clean-off-your-desk day. I think I found Elvis.'
• 681. Its not that I object to people re-inventing the wheel; what gets to me is watching them re-invent the flat tire.'
• 682. Its not what we don't know that hurts us'
• 683. Its not your blue blood'
• 684. Its the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.'
• 685. Its the good loser who finally loses out.'
• 686. [Its] time for the human race to enter the solar system.'
• 687. Its tough to make predictions'
• 688. Its what you learn after you know it all that counts.'
• 689. Jaw
• 690. Jenny kissed me when we met
• 691. John Barrymore: you should play Hamlet. Jimmy Durante: To hell with them small towns. Ill stick to New York.'
• 692. John Hollins has a very strong wife. It might have been better if Id made her manager.'
• 693. Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesnt mean he knows what it is.'
• 694. Justice is incidental to law and order.
• 695. Keep a stiff upper chin.
• 696. Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.
• 697. Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
• 698. Knock
• 699. Labour is mans greatest function. He is nothing'
• 700. Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
• 701. Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone
• 702. Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
• 703. Language is only the instrument of science
• 704. Language is the armoury of the human mind
• 705. Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
• 706. Language is the dress of thought.
• 707. Last night I dreamed I had insomnia. I woke up exhausted
• 708. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
• 709. Laughter is the tonic
• 710. Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
• 711. Laws were made to be broken.
• 712. Lead me
• 713. Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; well find it.'
• 714. Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
• 715. Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise
• 716. Leadership is influence.
• 717. Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness
• 718. Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
• 719. Learn and think imperially.
• 720. Learn to say æno to the good so you can say æyes' to the best.'
• 721. Legislators represent people
• 722. Leisure is a beautiful garment
• 723. Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
• 724. Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
• 725. Let every nation know
• 726. Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is
• 727. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
• 728. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
• 729. Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
• 730. Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
• 731. Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
• 732. Liberty doesnt work as well in practice as it does in speeches.'
• 733. Liberty is always dangerous
• 734. Liberty is the only thing you cant have unless you give it to others.'
• 735. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
• 736. Liberty
• 737. Life is 10% what you make it
• 738. Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
• 739. Life is a dead-end street.
• 740. Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns. Charles Feidelson
• 741. Life is a tragedy for those who feel
• 742. Life is just one damned thing after another.
• 743. Life is like a cash register
• 744. Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute
• 745. Life is not worth living unless you have a choice of all the gloriously unhygienic things that mankind - especially the French portion of it - has lovingly created.
• 746. Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion
• 747. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
• 748. Life is the childhood of our immortality.
• 749. Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
• 750. Life must be lived as play.
• 751. Life was simple before World War II. After that
• 752. Life
• 753. Life would be so much easier if everyone read the manual.
• 754. Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
• 755. Light is the symbol of truth.
• 756. Like winter snow on summer lawn
• 757. Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
• 758. Literature is news that stays news.
• 759. Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
• 760. Literature is the immortality of speech.
• 761. Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
• 762. Live the questions.
• 763. Logic is neither a science nor an art
• 764. Logic is the anatomy of thought.
• 765. Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
• 766. Logic
• 767. Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
• 768. Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.
• 769. Loquacity and lying are cousins.
• 770. Lord
• 771. Lose an hour in the morning
• 772. Love built on beauty
• 773. Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
• 774. Love gives itself; it is not bought.
• 775. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
• 776. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over
• 777. Love is
• 778. Love is an act of endless forgiveness
• 779. Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
• 780. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
• 781. Love is not blind - it sees more
• 782. Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
• 783. Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
• 784. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
• 785. Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young
• 786. Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.
• 787. Loves like the measles'
• 788. Loyalty ... is a realisation that America was born of revolt
• 789. Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
• 790. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
• 791. Luck is the residue of design.
• 792. Luxury is the first
• 793. Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury
• 794. Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
• 795. Make voyages! Attempt them...theres nothing else.'
• 796. Man does not live by words alone
• 797. Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
• 798. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
• 799. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth
• 800. Mans mind'
• 801. Mankind must put an end to war
• 802. Many times I find myself in a comfortable position - and I dont feel happy about it. It is...an enormous desire to go further'
• 803. Marriage
• 804. Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun
• 805. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
• 806. May fortune favour the foolish.
• 807. May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world. The Quayles 1989 Christmas card.[Not a beacon of literacy'
• 808. May you live all the days of your life.
• 809. Maybe this world is another planets Hell.'
• 810. Meat is murder. Fish is justifiable ichthyocide. Ken Johnson
• 811. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself
• 812. Men and women
• 813. Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand
• 814. Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar
• 815. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
• 816. Men use thought only as authority for their injustice
• 817. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
• 818. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
• 819. Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
• 820. Mistress (n): something which fits between a mister and a mattress.
• 821. Money is better than poverty
• 822. More irregular verbs: I address the issues
• 823. Mortal as I am
• 824. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
• 825. Most of the luxuries
• 826. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
• 827. Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply dont know how to quit.'
• 828. Most rock journalism is people who cant write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.'
• 829. Mr. Churchill
• 830. Mr. Churchill
• 831. Mr. Hussein
• 832. Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
• 833. My country right or wrong; when right
• 834. My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit
• 835. My desk is not messy! Its just decaying into a lower energy level faster than everyone else's.'
• 836. My fellow Americans
• 837. My good friend Trevor Brookly...
• 838. My horse was in the lead coming down the homestretch
• 839. My house is made out of balsa wood
• 840. My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
• 841. Nearly all men can stand adversity
• 842. Nearly everyone is in favour of going to heaven but too many are hoping theyll live long enough to see an easing of the entrance requirements.'
• 843. Necessity is the mother of invention.
• 844. Negotiation may cost far less than war
• 845. Never appeal to a mans better nature. he might not have one. Anonymous'
• 846. Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.
• 847. Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
• 848. Never chase a lie. Let it alone
• 849. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.
• 850. Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
• 851. Never fight an inanimate object.
• 852. Never hate you enemies
• 853. Never have sex with anyone in the office. Always wait until you get home.
• 854. Never judge a book by its movie.
• 855. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.'
• 856. Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely.
• 857. Never sign a contract with someone whom you need to sign a contract with
• 858. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
• 859. Next to being shot at and missed
• 860. Nice guys finish last.
• 861. Nil Carborundum Illegitimi.
• 862. Nixon has been sitting in the White House while George McGovern has been exposing himself to the people of the United States. Frank Licht
• 863. No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
• 864. No evil is without its compensation. The less money
• 865. No fool can be silent at a feast.
• 866. No good deed goes unpunished.
• 867. No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would ce