Quotes without Commentary

• If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead - if you strike oil. - --J. Paul Getty
• Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - --Ronald Reagan
• Misers amass wealth for those who wish them dead. - --Polish Proverb
• The things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals. - --Charles W. Tobey
• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - --Mark Twain
• Recollection: To remember in great detail something that never happened. - --Frank Dane
• Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!' till you can find a rock. - --Wynn Catlin
• No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. - --Jascha Heifetz
• In the end, it is attention to detail that makes all the difference. It's the center fielder's extra two steps to the left, the salesman's memory for names, the lover's phone call, the soldier's clean weapon. It is the thing that separates the winners fr - --David Noon
• A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. - --John Mason Brown
• One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is that there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. - --Duc de La Rochefoucauld (-)
• A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first. - --Oscar Levant
• Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there. - --Franklin P. Jones
• Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. - --Arthur Schnitzler
• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - --French Proverb
• I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - --Thomas Jefferson
• Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. - --Fred Allen
• Man cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. - --Alexis Carrel
• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little. - --Montaigne
• Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. - --Sir Fred Hoyle
• If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions, you are a gentleman of society. - --Greek Proverb
• Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. - --Mark Twain
• The men in America people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. - --H.L. Mencken
• I would rather men should ask why no statue has been erected in my honor, than why one has. - --Marcus Cato (nd century BC)
• Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely. - --Kay Lyons
• When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. - --Bernard Baily
• Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known. - --Francis Jeffrey
• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings. - --Hodding Carter
• It's possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. - --Lee Segall
• Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - --Samuel Butler
• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - --e e cummings
• We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - --Jean Cocteau
• News is the first rough draft of history. - --Ben Bradlee