Quips

The ear tests words as the tongue tastes food – Yu Nowe Hu

The shortest distance between two points is under construction. Noelie Alito

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them –Robert Frost.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Bombeck

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. – Karl Marks

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there – Indira Gandhi


I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. – Theodore Roosevelt

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. - Arthur Koestler

Of loud mouths and sluggards

The nerve he had to say things like that to me. An irresponsible ass with an inflated ego, a lying tongue and an ugly face. Cast on the street he would not be of any worth.... A Godless life, brimming with laziness, compulsive lying and all this you can describe in one work.. His name is ... forget it...