"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it"
- ANON

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance"
- SIR CLAUS MOSER"

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do" - ANON

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" - ANON

"The best buy by way of management is brains - at any price"
- MALCOLM FORBES

"To belittle is to be little" - ANON"

An optimist is a man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery"
- WALTER WINCHELL

"You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing" - ANON

"I am a man, I count nothing human foreign to me" - TERENCE

"Easy doesn't do it" - ANON

"Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with" - PROVERB

"If your outgoings exceed your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall"
- ANON

"The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed"
- NICOLAS CHAMFORT

"Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot" - ANON

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field" - NIELS BOHR

"Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration!" - ANON

"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car" - KENNETH TYNAN

"Triumph is made up of two words - Try and Umph!" - ANON

"Brevity is the soul of wit" - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

"There's always a way if you are willing to pay the price in time, energy or effort"
- ANON

"The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult"
- MARQUISE DU DEFFAND

"It's always too soon to quit" - ANON

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement" - MABEL NEWCOMER

"Character consists of what you do on the third and forth tries"
- JAMES MICHENER

"Ask yourself often - how can I do it better?" - ANON

"The rules of sucess won't work unless you do" - ANON

"Originality has no nationality or place of origin" - GABRIELLE 'COCO' CHANEL

"The employer usually gets the employees they deserve" - WALTER GILBEY

"Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position"
- BERTON BRALEY

"It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself"
- DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome"
- SAMUEL JOHNSON

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"No-one wants advice - only corroboration" - JOHN STEINBECK

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be" - ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"Success is in direct proportion to your commitment to excellence and your love of what you do, regardless of your chosen field of endeavor" - ANON

"A library is thought in cold storage" - HERBERT SAMUEL

"Only the conceited do not like to be corrected. The wise always ask for advice!"
- ANON

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it" - MOTHER THERESA

"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom" - PROVERB

"Civility costs nothing" - PROVERB

"Success is getting up one more time than you fall" - ANON

"No-one thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about themselves"
- ANTHONY TROLLOPE

"Failing to plan means planning to fail" - ANON

"There are some who speak one moment before they think" - JEAN DE LA BRUYERE

"When someone says he's laying all the cards on the table, count them" - ANON

"I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if your'e going to be lazy" - SHIRLEY CONRAN

"How many things I can do without" - SOCRATES

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing" - ANON

"He who can see three days ahead will be rich for three thousand years"
- JAPANESE PROVERB

"Be cheerful! Of all the things you wear, your expressions are the most important"
- ANON

"Just when you think you see the whole picture of life clearly, the channel changes"
- ANON

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you and you have to battle with only one of them"
- CALVIN COOLIDGE

"Some minds are like concrete; thoroghly mixed up and permanently set" - ANON

"It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages" - HENRY FORD

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra" - ANON

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable" - THEODORE N VAIL

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises" - ANON

"Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so"
- DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

"A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year" - MARTY ALLEN