Try Biting Your Own Teeth

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Better to be ignorant of a matter than to half know it. – Publilius Syrus

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers

It pays to be ignorant, for when you’re smart you already know it can’t be done. – Jeno F. Palucci

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. – Alan Watts

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. – Horace Walpole

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination see in every object, only the traits which favor that theory. – Thomas Jefferson

The amount a person uses his imagination is inversely proportional to the amount of punishment he will receive for using it. -–Roger von Oech

We Sell Hope

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Fuel is not sold in a forest, nor fish on a lake. – Chinese proverb

People will buy anything that’s one to a customer. – Sinclair Lewis

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. – Charles Revson

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility and utility is success. – Thomas A. Edison

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. – Peter Drucker

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear. – Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. – Earl Wilson

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The Only Animal That Can Remain on Friendly Terms with the Victims

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I believe that every right implies a responsibilty; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. – John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. – Samuel Butler

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. – Soren Kierkegaard

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson

He who goes with wolves learns to howl. – Spanish proverb

You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square. – S.I. Hayakawa

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