Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Darkly Comical Quotes

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. – Olin Miller

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Bacon

The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don’t know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited. – William Feather

All the world is a store, and all the people in it are salespeople. That is to say, every one of us human beings is trying to transfer an idea from his own head into some other brain. And that is the essence of salesmanship. – Arthur Brisbane

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. – Phillip Brooks

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. – Derby Brown

We always like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire. – La Rochefoucald

You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. – Abraham Lincoln

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