I once had an accountant who was so good with numbers he eventually got to wear one for ten to fifteen years.
— Gene Perret
Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
— Samuel Goldwyn
When you’re rich, people say you’re profound, handsome, graceful – and sing like an angel.
— Jewish proverb
Better Than Gold
Always a little more.
— John D. Rockefeller, on how much money it takes to satisfy a person
Women don’t dress to please men; if they did, they would dress a lot faster.
— Anonymous
I’ve got a shirt for every day of the week. It’s blue.
— Ron Dentinger
The black nose of a shoe would peek from beneath the hem of the Sisters of Mercy’s full habit, then dart back inside the flaring recesses, as though each was sheltering a family of mice.
— Richard Selzer
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The humble man feels no jealously or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised while he is forgotten.
— Andrew Murray
A dog will sit beside you while you work. A cat will sit on the work.
— Pam Brown
To a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff.
— Anonymous
Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you.
— Missy Dizick
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To have just finished repaying all one’s debts. Ah, is this not happiness?
— Chin Shengt’an
By the time we realize our parents may have been right, we usually have children who think we are wrong.
— Anonymous
A man with no children misses a lot. For instance, a man with no children will never know the thrill of officiating at the funeral of a dead goldfish.
— Anonymous
A mother of seventeen children says that having another child is the only way she knows to keep the youngest child from being spoiled.
— Anonymous
Better Than Gold
Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.
— Og Mandino
Barbecue: Smoke without fire.
— Colin Bowles
Don’t you think the Road Commissioner would be willing to pay my wife something for her recipe for pie crust?
— Calvin Coolidge
I’ve been so busy, I don’t even have time to cook for my kids. I don’t wanna say we eat out a lot, but I’ve noticed that lately when I call my kids for dinner they run to the car.
— Julie Kidd
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Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always a part of unanimity.
— Christopher Morley
Aging: Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
— Anonymous
When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, think of Algebra.
— Anonymous
God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked, the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the difference.
— Anonymous
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The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it.
— John Maxwell
A decision is what a man makes when he can’t get anyone to serve on a committee.
— Fletcher Knebel
A steering committee is a group of four people trying to park a car.
— Anonymous
It is characteristic of committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member’s recollection differs violently from every other member’s recollection.
— Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay
Better Than Gold
Think big; start small.
— Patricia Fripp