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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
NATHAN MEYER ROTHSCHILD
LARRY APPLETON: This must have been how Eisenhower felt just before D-Day. All around him the troops sleeping; not Ike! He knew that one single mistake could change the course of world history. BALKI BARTOUKOMOUS: Was this before or after Ike met Tina Turner?
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you're allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
FRED ASTAIRE
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHREY DAVY
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now."
JOSEPH RAY
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
AFRICAN PROVERB
When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
WARD CLEAVER LEAVE IT TO BEAVER
The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
PEARL S. BUCK
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
HENRY C. LINK
Love truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIRE
CRIMINAL: You made a mistake, and I'm not going to pay for it. SGT. JOE FRIDAY: You going to use a credit card?
DRAGNET
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
MEISTER ECKHART
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
MARLENE DIETRICH
One and one is two, two and two are four, and five'll get you ten if you know how to work it.
MAE WEST
This is the way God would do it if He only had money.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN describing Moss Hart's home
Money is a sweet balm.
ARABIAN PROVERB
Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment, it insures the possibility of satisfying a necessary desire when it arises.
ARISTOTLE
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights—for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
RICHARD BARNFIELD
Money is the symbol of everything that is necessary for man's well-being and happiness. Money means freedom, independence, liberty.
EDWARD E. BEALS
Money is the sinews of art and literature.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Money is Aladdin's lamp.
LORD BYRON
Money is like an arm or a leg—use it or lose it.
HENRY FORD
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
Money is health, and liberty, and strength.
CHARLES LAMB
Money is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Money is that which brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.
JOHN MILTON
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen "Hey, you!"
WILSON MIZNER
Money is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.
PHILO
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Money is the most important thing in the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere except heaven, and as a universal provider for everything except happiness.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Money is the root of all good.
RUDOLF WANDERONE
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
JOE LOUIS
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
GERALD BRENAN
You mean you can actually spend $70,000 at Woolworth's?
BOB KRASNO after seeing Ike and Tina Turner's house
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
MARGARET THATCHER
A lot of people are willing to give God the credit, but not too many are willing to give him the cash.
I don't know where this one came from, but my bet is onLaugh-In
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
COCO CHANEL
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
JAMES BALDWIN
My friends, money is not all. It is not money that will mend a broken heart or reassemble the fragments of a dream. Money cannot brighten the hearth nor repair the portals of a shattered home. I refer, of course, to Confederate money.
ARTEMUS WARD
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. MENCKEN
My life is a bubble; but how much solid cash it costs to keep that bubble floating!
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
HOBART BROWN
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
C. WRIGHT MILLS
It is not a custom with me to keep money to look at.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Gold will buy the highest honors; and gold will purchase love.
OVID THE ART OF LOVE
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
HENRIK IBSEN
I'm tired of love, I'm tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC
Money is like love, it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and it enlivens the other who turns it upon his fellow man.
KHALIL GIBRAN
With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.
YIDDISH PROVERB
The love of money is the root of all evil.
1 TIMOTHY 6:10
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
ECCLESIASTES 10:19
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
ALBERT CAMUS
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Money often costs too much.
Money wasn't that important. Money doesn't help you sleep. Money doesn't help your mother be well, money doesn't help your brother stay interested in his studies. Money don't help nothing. Money is only good when you've got something else to do with it. A man can lose everything, family, all your dreams, and still have a pocketful of money.
GEORGE FOREMAN
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world, and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
MAXIM FROM 425 B.C.
Money's the wise man's religion.
EURIPIDES
Only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
EURIPIDES twelve years later
The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
HUMPHREY BOGART
I find all this money a considerable burden.
J. PAUL GETTY
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows 'em up.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
HERMAN MELVILLE
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.
BARBARA HUTTON
Money doesn't buy happiness, but that's not the reason so many people are poor.
LAURENCE J. PETERS
Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in the pocket.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Money is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted.
SAMUEL BUTLER
If you can actually count your money then you are not really a rich man.
J. PAUL GETTY
I bless God I do find that I am worth more than ever I yet was, which is L6,200, for which the Holy Name of God be praised!
SAMUEL PEPYS
Money is God in action.
FREDERICK J. EIKERENKOETTER II REVEREND IKE
After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS
Hello, good evening and welcome to Blackmail. And to start tonight's program, we go north to Preston in Lancashire and Mrs. Betty Teal. Hello Mrs. Teal! Now Mrs. Teal, this is for fifteen pounds and it's to stop us revealing the name of your lover in Bolton. So, Mrs. Teal, send us fifteen pounds by return of post please and your husband Trevor and your lovely children, Diane, Janice and Juliet, need never know the name of your lover in Bolton.
MONTY PYTHON
If thou wouldst keep money, save money; If thou wouldst reap money, sow money.
THOMAS FULLER
Money is the seed of money.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
If a little does not go, much cash will not come.
CHINESE PROVERB
A lot of people will also urge you to put some money in a bank, and in fact—within reason—this is very good advice. But don't go overboard. Remember, what you are doing is giving your money to somebody else to hold on to, and I think that it is worth keeping in mind that the businessmen who run banks are so worried about holding on to things that they put little chains on all their pens.
MISS PIGGY
I cannot easily buy a blankbook to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.
MALCOLM FORBES
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATES
We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
HENRY KISSINGER
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
OSCAR WILDE
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
DUKE ELLINGTON
Like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
SOMERSET MAUGHAM
I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
GARRISON KEILLOR
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at.
LEWIS THOMAS
At twilight nature becomes a wonderfully suggestive effect, and is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
OSCAR WILDE
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
BLAISE PASCAL
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the lifegiving earth, and the native American shared this elemental ethic: the land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. His feelings were made visible in medicine bundles and dance rhythms for rain, and all of his religious rites and land attitudes savored the inseparable world of nature and God, the master of Life. During the long Indian tenure the land remained undefiled save for scars no deeper than the scratches of cornfield clearings or the farming canals of the Hohokams on the Arizona desert.
STEWART LEE UDALL
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