Going to Hell in Embroidrery

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Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery. – Proverb



A fortune is usually the greatest of misfortunes to children. It takes the muscles out of the limbs, the brain out of the head, and virtue out of the heart. – Henry Ward Beecher



It is poor encouragement to toil through life to amass a fortune to ruin your children. In nine cases out of ten, a large fortune is the greatest curse which could be bequeathed to the young and inexperienced. – Jean de la Bruyere



To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it more difficult, but to spend it wisely most difficult of all. – Edward Parsons Day



Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetite. – Thomas Fuller

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Image by St. Murse via FlickrRashness succeeds often, still more often fails. – Napoleon Bonaparte




If you leap into a well, providence is not bound to fetch you out. – Thomas Fuller



To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.



The strength of Monaco is the weakness of the world. – H.A. Gibbons



Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. – Walter Matthau



God does not play dice. – Albert Einstein

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Threatened Folks Live Long

Image by kafka4prez via FlickrMen are not against you; they are merely for themselves. – Gene Fowler




If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. Elbert Hubbard



There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site. – Sydney Harris



There’s nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. – Euripides



If you shoot a king you must kill him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. – Cesar Chavez



Threatened folks live long. – Thomas Fuller

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Don't Sell the Bear's Skin before you've Caught Him

Image via WikipediaSell not the bear’s skin before you have caught him. – Thomas Fuller




We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war. – Publius Syrus



Admire a little ship, but put your cargo in a big one. – Hesiod



Better have one plough going than two cradles. – Edmund Fuller



Butter spoils no meat and moderation no cause. – Danish Proverb



Keep a thing for seven years and you’ll find use for it. – Irish Proverb



What’s not worth doing is not worth doing well. – Don Hebb

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The Right Moment for Grasping a Disappointment

Image by zyphichore via FlickrA whole bushel of wheat is made up of single grains. – Thomas Fuller




The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams. – Publius Ovid

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. – Publius Syrus



An opportunity is picking the right moment for grasping a disappointment. – anonymous



The world is an oyster but you don’t crack it open on a mattress. – Arthur Miller


Opportunity is closest when everyone is against taking advantage of it. – anonymous



An opportunist counts his fingers after shaking hands with another opportunist. - anonymous

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The Danger of Too Many Precautions

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A Ship is safe in port, but that’s not what ships are built for. – Grace Murray Hopper

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. – Thomas Fuller

Better hazard once than always be in fear. – Thomas Fuller

If you play it safe in life, you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow anymore. – Shirley Hufstedler

The chief danger in life is that you may make too many precautions. – Alfred Adler

Nothing is so exhilarating as to be shot at without results. – Winston S. Churchill

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able Man who is willing to risk his fortune. – J. Paul Getty

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Interesting Answers Destroy the Questions

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Nothing is so good that some fault cannot be found with it. – Aesop fable

It’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. – Bertrand Russell

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. – Eugene Ionesco

‘Tis not every question that deserves an answer. – Thomas Fuller

Good questions outrank easy answers. – Paul A. Samuelson

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. – Susan Sontag

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney J. Harris

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The Interest Paid by Those who Borrow Trouble

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A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life. – C.R. Smith

Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. – George W. Lyon

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. – Thomas Fuller

Intractable problems are usually not intractable because there are no solutions, but because there are no solutions without severe side effects. – Lester C. Thurow

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – Richard H. Tawney

People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Maslow

All things are difficult before they are easy. - Thomas Fuller

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They Have No Magic to Stir Men's Blood

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Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. – Ben Nicholas

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing. – Thomas Fuller

There’s never time to do it right, but always time to do it over. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. – Mandell Creighton

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. – John Galesworthy

A danger forseen is half avoided. – Thomas Fuller

Make no little plans: they have no magic to stir men’s blood. – Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. – Daniel H. Burnham

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To be Taken in by Hope

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Nothing is good or bad but by comparison. – Thomas Fuller

If there’s an opinion, facts will be found to support it. – July Sproles

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic. – John Kenneth Galbraith

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did, I said I didn’t know. – Mark Twain

Future, Noun – that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. – Ambrose Bierce – The Devil’s Dictionary

During the last recession, many companies faced the future with “cautious optimism.” Hardly any chose to face it with “reckless pessimism.”

More are taken in by hope than by cunning. – Luc de Clapiers

Becoming Extremely Wicked Doesn't Happen Suddenly

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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. – Henry A. Kissinger

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it makes it difficult to class them serparately. One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous, makes the sublime again. – Thomas Paine

No one becomes extremely wicked suddenly. – Juvenal

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. – Sophocles

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. – Henry David Thoreau

Forgetting of a wrontg is a mild revenge. – Thomas Fuller

The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. – William Shakespeare

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Drinking Tea with a Fork

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry, but money answereth all things. – Bible – Ecclesiastes

A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork. – Chinese proverb

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May. – Anthony Trollope

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. – thomas Shadwell

Learn to pause – or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. – Doug King

It is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely. – Julius Rosenwald

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing. – Thomas Fuller

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Hain't We Got all the Fools on our Side?

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Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat’s ear. But only the wisest of cats would think to look there. – Andrew Mercer

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town? – Mark Twain

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. – William Shakespeare

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. – Thomas Fuller

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. - Charles P. Steinmetz

No man is useless while he has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. – William Shakespeare

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Zeal without Knowledge is Fire Without Light

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If you are going to be a bridge, you’ve got to be prepared to be walked upon. – Roy A. West

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. – Thomas Jones

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe. – Aristophanes

To make an enemy, do someone a favor. – James McLaughry

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity. – George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. – Juan Montalvo

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. – Thomas Fuller

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Why do I Wake up Feeling Like Veal?

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My experience has been – that in the end, when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win. – Edward Teller

Beware the financial man who does not have confrontations; a good financial man can be expected to have at least one confrontation every day. – Henry O. Golightly

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won’t get much sleep. – Woody Allen

Many men can bear adversity, but few contempt. – Thomas Fuller

“Queuemania” is an ailment that afflicts people with a compulsive urge to line up behind someone or something, even a lamppost. – Thomas P. Roman

Play the revolutionary and challenge the rules – especially the ones you use to govern your day-to-day activities. – Roger von Oech

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. – Oscar Wilde

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Concensus is a Security Blanket

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Every obnoxious act is a cry for help. – Zig Ziglar

The action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. – Francis Hutcheson

When a man asks for your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide. – Edgar Watson Howe

Don’t ask a barber if you need a haircut. – Daniel greenberg

A blind man will not thank you for a looking glass. – Thomas Fuller

Consensus is the security blanket for the insecure. – Pierre A. Rinfret

Many pormising reconciliations have broken down because, while both partis came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven. Charles Williams

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The Penalties of Over Achievement

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. – J. Fred Bucy

It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. – Charles F. Kettering

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results. – George S. Patton

If you can’t measure output then you measure input. – Charle Schultze

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. – Bible, Proverbs 13:19

There is no penalty for overachievement. George W. Miller

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. – Thomas Fuller

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Dollars and Sense

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Dollars do better is they are accompanied by sense. – Earl Riney

Competence always contains the seeds of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter

One’s ability to perform a given task competently decreases in proportion to the number of people watching. – Mark R. Frank

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges. – Charles Boyle

Everyone must row with the oars he has. – Thomas Fuller

As the tempo of a man’s activity steadily increases, it is evident that men must become skilled practitioners of the science of selection. – Philip Marvin

You cannot define talent. All you can do is build the greenhouse and see if it grows. – William P. Steven

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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers (Persian post riders) from the swift accomplishment of their appointed rounds. – Herodotus

You know you and I have some of the same people working for each other. – Nikita Krushchev (speaking to CIA director Allen Dulles)

Some people work just hard enough not to get fired, and some companies pay people just enough that they won’t quit. – Louis E. Boone

The employer generally gets the employee he deserves. -–Sir Walter Gilbey
Few great men could pass personnel. – Paul Goodman

Everyone thinks his sack heaviest. – George Herbert

A good horse should be seldom spurred. – Thomas Fuller

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