Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Occupation is the scythe of time.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
Who saves his country violates no law.
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Better to be safe than sorry.
Proverb
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
Cut your losses and let your profits run.
In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.
Always count the cost.
The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.
Never swap horses crossing a stream.
Don't change horses while crossing a stream.
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
The early bird gets the worm.
From small beginnings come great things.
Some will, some don't, so what!
He who eats alone chokes alone.
Arabic Proverb
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus.
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
George Bush
Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.
Vannevar Bush
We cannot meet it the threat of dictatorship if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of totalitarianism, where every mans hand is out for pabulum and virile creativeness has given place to the patronizing favor of swollen bureaucracy.
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Horace Bushnell
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Nolan Bushnell
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.
Willard C. Butcher
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B. Butler
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