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1. "Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."

Mignon McLaughin

2. "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

Henry J. Kaiser

Quotations about: Work and Laziness -:- Question and Problem

3. "Don't try to have the last word. You might get it."

Robert A. Heinlein

4. "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."

Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

5. "There's no business like show business."

Irving Berlin

6. "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."

Hubert Humphrey

7. "The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians."

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge), "End of an Age"

Quotations about: History and Nations

8. "The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound."

Marshall McLuhan, "Understanding Media"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

9. "Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

Philip Johnson

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Art and Culture

10. "Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."

Margaret Mitchell, "Gone with the Wind"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

11. "People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Science and Technology

12. "Anybody can be pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."

Pope John XXIII

13. "As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it."

Holbrook Jackson, "Platitudes in the Making"

14. "Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?"

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

15. "A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

George Moore

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

16. "The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Sir William Osler

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

17. "If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."

Thomas Carlyle

Quotations about: God and Religion

18. "Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."

Wilson Mizner

19. "After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance."

Anon.

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Richness and Money

20. "Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure."

Anon.

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21. "Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."

George Santayana

22. "Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous."

Anon.

Quotations about: God and Religion

23. "A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money

24. "We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police."

Anon.

25. "Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle."

Anon.

Quotations about: Youth and Age

26. "A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it."

Anon.

27. "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it."

Anon.

28. "Soft words are hard arguments."

Thomas Fuller

29. "A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head."

Anon.

30. "The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement."

Anon.

31. "Do's and don'ts influence wills and won'ts."

Anon.

32. "The Lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money

33. "A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."

Herbert V. Prochnow

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

34. "Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Anger

35. "A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist."

Franklin P. Jones

36. "Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

T.S. Eliot

Quotations about: Authority, Government

37. "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Khalil Gibran

38. "Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

39. "The memory of bad quality lasts longer than the shock of high prices."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money

40. "Tradition is a guide not a jailer."

William Somerset Maugham

41. "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."

James Baldwin

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

42. "In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies."

Stephen Leacock

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

43. "A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

Mao Zedong

Quotations about: Authority, Government

44. "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"

45. "There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient."

George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"

46. "It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

Harry S. Truman

47. "A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words."

Samuel Butler

48. "Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."

Norman Mailer, "Cannibals and Christians"

49. "Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

Norman Mailer

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

50. "Biography should be written by an acute enemy."

Arthur Balfour

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

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