Quotations
Quotes:
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
View quotes by Tom Wolfe
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
View quotes by Milton Friedman
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
View quotes by Andrew Lang
Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)
View quotes by John Locke
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? (Unkempt Thoughts)
View quotes by Stanislaw Lee
The consumer, so it is said, is the king... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done
View quotes by Paul A Samuelson
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
View quotes by Lord Robbins
If you can make math come alive and get students really excited about it, then they will gain a true understanding of math and math's many uses.
View quotes by Justin Timberlake
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
View quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinley
I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
View quotes by Bob Monkhouse
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
View quotes by Edgar Watson Howe
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
View quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
View quotes by Scott Adams
Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.
View quotes by Max Beerbohm
Statistics are used like a drunk uses a lamp post - for support, not illumination.
View quotes by Vince Scully
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
View quotes by Richard Feynman
Anyone who uses the word 'qunitessentially' in a half-time talk is talking crap.
View quotes by Mick McCarthy
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Proverbs:
As Safe As Houses
Sex Takes Up The Least Amount Of Time And Causes The Most Amount Of Trouble
Fools Build Houses, And Wise Men Live In Them
Idle People Lack No Excuses
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