All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.
~quote about Taxes by Walter B. Wriston
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
~quotes on Self-Respect by Jane Haddam
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them
~sayings on Adversity by John Aughey
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
~quotations on Light by Aaron Rose
News is history shot on the wing.
~romantic birthday quotes by Gene Fowler, Skyline
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
~saying about romantic birthday by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
~quote about Feminism by Susan B. Anthony
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~quotes on Music by Berthold Auerbach
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
~sayings on Life by Henry Van Dyke
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties
~quotations on Boss Day by Doug Larson
In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
~romantic birthday quotes by Stephen J. Gould
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
~saying about romantic birthday by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
~quote about Friendship by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
The parents’ life is children copybook. Two parents teach more than 20 teachers.
~quotes on Family by
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
~sayings on Poker by David Mamet
Wine is bottled poetry.
~quotations on Alcohol by Robert Louis Stevenson
It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
~romantic birthday quotes by Hank Aaron, 1971
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
~saying about romantic birthday by Don Marquis
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
~quote about Civilization by Henry Havelock Ellis
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
~quotes on Happiness by Colette
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
~sayings on War by Will Rogers, New York Times, 23 December 1929
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
~quotations on Business by Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden, The Mission, Chapter 2
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
~romantic birthday quotes by Washington Irving
Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
~saying about romantic birthday by Scott Adams
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
~quote about Science by Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
~quotes on Golf by Jack Nicklaus, on why he tees his ball high.
Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world.
~sayings on Smoking by Irish Proverb
If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot.
~quotations on Sports by Dean Smith
It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants
~romantic birthday quotes by Author Unknown
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
~saying about romantic birthday by Pietro Aretino
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
~quote about Generations by Ramsey Clark
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.
~quotes on Self-Discovery by H.W. Shaw
Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun
~sayings on Baseball by Roger Angell in Five Seasons
The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
~quotations on Religion by Ezra Pound
Our enemies’ opinion of us is more accurate then our own.
~romantic birthday quotes by
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
~saying about romantic birthday by Robert Kiyosaki
We must love one another or die
~quote about Death by W.H. Auden
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
~quotes on Men by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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