ADVISE is seldom welcomed; and those who want it the most always like it the least. - Lord Chesterfield (Chesterfield also said "When a man seeks your advise he generally seeks your praise."
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. - Elbert Hubbard
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. - Horace Walpole
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. - Richard Whatley
You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. - Joseph E Levine
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln
Let us be in good cheer, remembering that the misforutnes hardest to bear are those which never happen. - James Russsel Lowell
The question "Who ought to be the boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" - obviously, the man who can sing tenor. - Henry Ford
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. - Edward Hand
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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