Tuesday, November 14, 2006

12 great quotes and proverbs

1.The four most beautiful words in our common language:I told you so.-Gore Vidal
2.Ready money works great cures.-French proverb
3.Once,in the finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy.-Thomas Ernest Hulme
4.How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-heroes!-Maya Angelou
5.We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart.-Chinese proverb
6.In this country,when you finish second no one knows your name.-Frank McGuire
7.Many a necklace becomes a noose.-Paul Eldridge
8.Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.-Paul Eldridge
9.Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.-Paul Eldridge
10.Reading the epitaphs,our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.-Paul Eldridge
11.It's not excellence which leads to celebrity,but celebrity which leads to excellence;one makes one's reputation,and one's reputation enables one to achieve the conditions in which one can do good work.-Michael Frayn
12.The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse--that is to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.-H.L.Mencken

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