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It takes brains to make money,
but any dam (sic) fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money. -November '95 Epigrams of the Day
Golden Oldie
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, Success is failure turned inside out, -Edgar Guest
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It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs. -- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
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Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Bolub's Fourth Law of Computerdom: Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress.
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Answers to Last TFTD's Questions:
Don.t procrastinate, perendinate.
-A Word A Day 4/19/2009
When you fall in a river,
you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer. -Gene Hill
Education is learning what you
didn't even know you didn't know. -Daniel J. Boorstin
A trip to nostalgia now and then is good for the
spirit, as long as you don't set up housekeeping. -Dan Bartolovic
With our economy did you put aside
something for retirement? Yes. I put aside my plans to retire. -Puns of the Day
Appreciation is like an insurance policy.
It has to be renewed every now and then. -Dave McIntyre
Why do puns offend? Charles Lamb, a notorious punster,
explained that the pun is 'a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.' Surely puns silence conversation before they animate it. Some stricken with pun-lust sink so far into their infirmity that their minds become trained to lie in wait for words on which to work their wickedness. They are the scourge of dinner tables and the despised prolongers of office meetings, some letting fly as instinctively as dogs bark and frogs croak, no longer concerned even with drawing applause; they simply can't help themselves. -From an Opinion Piece by ***** tftd resembles that remrk.
Golden Oldie
The Hero died- -Billboard 'Book Review'
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win,
and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. -Lou Holtz
I have been uplinked and downloaded.
I've been inputted and outsourced. I know the upside of downsizing; I know the downside of upgrading. I'm a high-tech lowlife. A cutting-edge, state-of-the art, bicoastal multitasker, and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond. -George Carlin
The future arrives an hour at a time.
-Author Unknown
We have to abandon the idea that schooling
is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40--- and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? -Arthur C. Clarke
How old would you be
if you didn't know how old you are? -Satchell Paige
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