Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Financial Services My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Work is a four-letter word.
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We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Financial Services Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Financial Services We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Financial Services
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Financial Services No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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-- William Yeats Financial Services
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Financial Services This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Financial Services
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
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-- John Greenleaf Whittier Financial Services Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Financial Services
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Financial Services Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Robert Benchley A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Financial Services "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Financial Services
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Financial Services Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Financial Services
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Financial Services "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Financial Services
