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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
 Adams
John
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
 Adams
John Quincy
Like, if I'm not for me, then fer shure, like who will be? And if, y'know,
if I'm not like fer anyone else, then hey, I mean, what am I? And if not
now, like I dunno, maybe like when? And if not Who, then I dunno, maybe
like the Rolling Stones?
 Altgeld
John
Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities,
requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a
clogged toilet. In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as
annoying faucet drip, merely by tur Berryman
John
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
 Cage
John
Suffering alone exists, none who suffer;
The deed there is, but no doer thereof;
Nirvana is, but no one is seeking it;
The Path there is, but none who travel it.
 Cage
John
"Hey, Sam, how about a loan?"
"Whattaya need?"
"Oh, about $500."
"Whattaya got for collateral?"
"Whattaya need?"
"How about an eye?"
 Carson
Johnny
I'll turn over a new leaf.
 Carson
Johnny
It was the next morning that the armies of Twodor marched east
laden with long lances, sharp swords, and death-dealing hangovers. The
thousands were led by Arrowroot, who sat limply in his sidesaddle,
nursing a whopper. Goodgulf, Gimlet, and the r Carson
Johnny
Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.
 Carson
Johnny
'Naomi, sex at noon taxes.' I moan.
Never odd or even.
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Sit on a potato pan, Otis.
Sit on Otis.
 Cheever
John
Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as
`all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled
with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.'
 Ciardi
John
I hate quotations.
 Ciardi
John
There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering.
 Ciardi
John
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
 Croll
John
Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a
number. Youre two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and
another number.
 Diefenbaker
John
Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit.
General: What does that make YOU?
Bullwinkle: What else? An executive.
 Dillinger
John
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
 Fisher
John
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
 Florio
John
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
 Foreman
John
Better late than never.
 Galbraith
John Kenneth
We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold.
 Galbraith
John Kenneth
If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it
is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.
 Galbraith
John Kenneth
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is
irksome and three minutes is a long time.
 Galsworthy
John
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
 Hart
Johnny
XXVI:
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on each
other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
XXVII:
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
XXVIII:
It is better to be the r Heywood
John
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.
 Heywood
John
"No job too big; no fee too big!"
 Heywood
John
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners.
In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the
original earth clinging to the roots.
 Heywood
John
Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.
 Heywood
John
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
 Heywood
John
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.
 Heywood
John
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
 Heywood
John
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
 Heywood
John
Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.
[If youth but knew, if old age but could.]
 Heywood
John
"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
 Heywood
John
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
 Heywood
John
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
 Heywood
John
The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic
devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers,
where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with sledgehammers.
With their devices thus permanent Heywood
John
In breeding cattle you need one bull for every twenty-five cows, unless
the cows are known sluts.
 Heywood
John
Fear is the greatest salesman.
 Heywood
John
The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
 Hinckley
John
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
 John LeCarre
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't,
don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
 Johnson
Dave
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it.
 Johnson
Dr.
...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither
does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to
combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is
self-propagating.
 Johnson
Dr.
The Bible says that woman was the last thing God made. Evidently He made
her on Saturday night. She reveals his fatigue.
 Johnson
Lyndon Baines
A full belly makes a dull brain.
 Johnson
S.
Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
 Johnson
Samuel
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
 Johnson
Samuel
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
 Johnson
Samuel
I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do?
 Johnson
Samuel
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and
robbers there will be.
 Johnson
Samuel
No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
 Johnson
Samuel
Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women.
They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.
 Johnson
Samuel
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
 Johnston
M. M.
The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning,
and lo! now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.
 Keats
John
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to
watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.
 Kennedy
John F.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
 Kennedy
John F.
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp
the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at
a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
 Kennedy
John F.
Five bicycles make a volkswagen, seven make a truck.
 Kennedy
John F.
I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when
it has been used to commit a murder.
 Kennedy
John Fitzgerald
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
 Keynes
John Maynard
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
 Keynes
John Maynard
All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard,
ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.
 Keynes
John Maynard
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
 Lennon
John
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy
of him that brought her birth.
 Lilly
John
Look ere ye leap.
 Locke
John
You cannot see the wood for the trees.
 Lubbock
John
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.
 Lyly
John
The fact that it works is immaterial.
 Mill
John Stuart
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
 Milton
John
A little bit of rape is good for a man's soul.
 Milton
John
Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided
at all costs.
 Morley
John Viscount
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
 O'Hara
John
Beggars should be no choosers.
 Pollard
John G.
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's
incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
 Rockefeller
John D.
None love the bearer of bad news.
 Sinclair
John
One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
 Sloan
John
To do two things at once is to do neither.
 Storm
Johnny
The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired
warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing
the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker.
 Swayze
John Cameron
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,"
it's the money.
 Updike
John
Intellect annuls Fate.
So far as a man thinks, he is free.
 Whorfin
Lord John
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Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Sign on a cabin door of a Soviet Black Sea cruise liner:
Helpsavering apparata in emergings behold many whistles!
Associate the stringing apparata about the bosums and meet
behind, flee then t Bowles
Colin
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