"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Sir Winston Churchill
(That's why I post this feature, thanks Winnie...hey, wait a minute!@#$)
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg." - Abraham Lincoln
(my wife like this one because of the accounting subtext)
"Ability will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - Abraham Lincoln
"Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest." - Benjamin Franklin
The vision of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) who rose from penniless immigrant to the wealthiest man on earth was to create "an ideal state in which the surplus wealth of the few will become, in the best sense, the property of the many." Carnegie created schools, a peace endowment, NY's Carnegie Hall, and 2,811 free public libraries with his lifetime "accumulated wealth".
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting." - John Kenneth Galbraith
When faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil." - Plato
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