Image by Steve Rhodes via FlickrWhen I was a boy, they used to say that “only a mule and a milepost never changed its mind.” – Bernard Baruch




When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder. – W.J. Slim



The strong are saying nothing until they see. – Robert Frost



Stupidity consists in wanting to come to a conclusion. – Emile Zola



General propositions do not decide concrete cases. – Oliver Wendell Holmes



To change one’s mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance. – Spanish Proverb



The superior man does not set his mind either for anything or against anything. - Confucius

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell

A man should be upright, not be kept upright. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There are three things which are real – God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third. – John F. Kennedy

You have to have a serious streak in you or you can’t see the funny side of the other fellow. – Will Rogers

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than can command the latter. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. – Emile Chartier

A idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. – Elbert Hubbard

Burst the Cocoon and Become a Butterfly

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Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have. – Jean-Paul Sartre

There is at bottom only one problem in the world and this is its name. How does one get into the open? How does one burst the cocoon and become a butterfly? – Thomas Mann

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. – Buddha

Every calling is great when greatly pursued. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. – Charles Schwab

We work to become, not to acquire. – Elbert Hubbard

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

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A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head. – Benjamin Disraeli

The Republican party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend to chickens. – Charles T. Manatt

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist – the taxidermist leaves the hide. – Mortimer Caplan

We don’t pay taxes; the little people pay taxes. – Leona Helmsley

Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The United States is the only country where it takes more brains to figure your tax bill than to earn the money to pay it. – Edward J. Gurney

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have a very special use for two highly trained certified public accountants. – Elvis Presley

The are of taxation consist in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. Jean Baptiste Colbert