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 | "Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn"t
get anyone else to listen to." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote
against somebody rather than for somebody." | |
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Found in the topic Election.
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| "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad
memory." | |
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Found in the topic Memory.
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| "There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The
trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good
five-cent nickel." | |
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Found in the topic Cigar.
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| "Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that,
if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not
write the paragraph at all." | |
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Found in the topic Illusions.
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| "I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by
looking up something and finding something else on the way." | |
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Found in the topic Information.
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| "The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians
who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all
of the people all of the time." | |
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Found in the topic Politics.
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| "The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He
smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the
livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his
heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim,
Though I must slave for livelihood? Think you that I would change with
him? You bet I would!" | |
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Found in the topic Rich.
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| "The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the
characters are purely imaginary." | |
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Found in the topic Fiction.
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| "These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.
Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double,
Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.
This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs" double-play combination:
Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank
Chance." | |
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Found in the topic Baseball.
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| "To err is human; to forgive, infrequent." | |
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Found in the topic Diversity.
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| "You never know what you can do without until you try. In Quotable
Business, ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992." | |
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Found in the topic Try.
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