A Good Deed Never Goes Unpunished

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. – W.C. Fields

A good deed never goes unpunished. – Gore Vidal

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. – Louis E Boone

The difference between a rut and a grave is the length. – Gerald Burrill

I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful. – Marilyn Monroe

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he helps himself. – Henry Morgan

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – John Pierpont Morgan

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I was Expecting This, but Not this Soon

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. – Jean de La Bruyere

Half the agony of living is waiting. – Alexander Rose

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Effective managers live in the present – but concentrate on the future. – James L. Hayes

I was expecting this, but not this soon. – tomstone inscription – Boot Hill, Arizona

You may ask me for anything you like except time. – Napoleon Bonaparte

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time. – Marilyn Monroe

She was Good at Playing Abstract Confusion

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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. – Georges Clemenceau

Missionaries, my dear! Don’t you realize that missionaries are the divinely provided food for destitute and underfed cannibals? Whenever they are on the brink of starvation, Heaven in its infinite mercy sends them a nice plump missionary. – Oscar Wilde

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. – H.L. Mencken

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. – Gerald Brenan

People will swim through sh—if you put a few bob in it. – Peter Sellers

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. – G.K. Chesterton

Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond studded wheelchair. – Dorothy Parker

About Marilyn Monroe – “She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way a midget is good at being short.” – Clive James

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