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Quotes about Sin


The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackery

The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightstick like a posthole digger. (in reference to the death by ruptured kidney and other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jones by 2 Cincinnati policemen).

Bill Hall

I haven't touched my brother in almost 18 years. (in reference to cruel prison regulations in Mansfield Ohio prison) http://www.kennyisinnocent.org http://www.petitiononline.com/manci.

Steven B Richey

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Napoleon Hill

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Gabriel Heatter

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Samuel Johnson

Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

Tallulah Bankhead

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Joseph Addison

Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.

Norma H. Hill

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!

Tom Lehrer

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Joseph E. Levine

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

Fred Allen

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.

Ralph S. Butler

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

Robert W. Sarnoff

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Stuart Chase

The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.

Albert Lasker

Advertising is the life of trade.

Calvin Coolidge

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

Steuart H. Britt

James Bond, a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon..

O Anna Niemus

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