Quotes by Authors - Page 208

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
Stephen Leacock
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
Winston Churchill
One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
John Updike
Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.
Anonymous
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution trying to kill it keeps it alive leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
Thomas Paine
Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.
Thomas Fuller
What costs nothing is worth nothing.
Anonymous
An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.
Franklin P. Jones
A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.
Anonymous
Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
Franklin P. Jones
Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.
Anonymous
Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.
Ambrose Bierce
Everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Izaak Walton
We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
Business is likeoil. It won't mix with anything but business.
J. Graham
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.
Samuel L. Clemens
The nature of business is swindling.
August Bebel
Business is religion and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
Maltbie Babcock
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Anonymous
The motto in the workaholic Silicon Valley is "Stop for lunch and you are lunch."
Anonymous
The whole world knows we have it made in America . . . made in China made in Mexico made in Japan.
Anonymous
I succeed him no one could replace him.
Thomas Jefferson
No one leads the orchestra without turning his back on the crowd.
Anonymous
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
To be a leader you need a lot of people dumb enough to follow.
Anonymous
He's always been known to be entrepenurious.
Wendy Morgan
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone
A decorator can make lots of money - assuming she wins the lottery.
Wendy Morgan
To make a long story short . . . there's nothing like having the boss walk in.
Anonymous
The consumer is not a moron she is your wife.
David Ogilvy
Never build after you are five and forty have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.
Anonymous
Old houses mended
Anonymous
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.
Gerald Massey
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Jonathan Swift
How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest!
Anonymous
Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.
Franklin P. Adams
An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.
John Kieran
Boredom like necessity is very often the mother of invention.
Anonymous
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
Hugh Prather
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Don Marquis
Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Dullness is a misdemeanor.
Ethel Wilson
Getting bored is not allowed.
Kay Thompson
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
Stendhal
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
Erich Fromm
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
William Ralph Inge
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
John Jay Chapman
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner the whole world opens up to you.
Barbara Sher
In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.
D.H. Lawrence
Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.
Julie O. Smith
Boredom is a sickness of the soul.
Anonymous
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
Helen Maclnness
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Eric Hoffer
When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity self-sufficiency and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
Dr. William Menninger
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.
Cynthia Propper Seton