It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.
Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.
It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.
Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.
If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.
A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.
Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.
The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.
Those carried away by power are soon carried away.
When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.
If you can read and don't, you're dumb.
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
People who never get carried away should be.
Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.
I think legislative assaults on motorcyclists are totally emotionally, disproportionate and totally unfair....they're instigated and implemented by people who know nothing about motorcycling, but have a prejudice. It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own.
Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on earth-the excitement, the wonder, the fears when we brought him home. His every squeak or squawk we were sure heralded some terrible crisis; I tested the warmth of formulas from dusk to dawn, it seemed. We were so germ-conscious my wife even sterilized the skin of the oranges before squeezing them. How firstborns ever survive their parents' attentions is beyond me. However, they do, and he did, and, in spite of our efforts, he turned out to be quite a good guy.
Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.
A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.
To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all guns? For the life of me, I can't. We must register our cars and be licensed to drive. In many places we must get licenses for dogs and even bicycles. Being required to register firearms and show the competence and capacity to handle them hardly seems unreasonable, hardly seems an infringement of freedom. What is it that blocks such legislation? Why do they block it? How are they able to block it?
