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The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. – William Gladstone
Countries that have strong pre-crisis macroeconomic metrics, rich natural resources and export-based industries have stronger recovery prospects. Strong budgets allow the government to stimulate the economy with less debt burden. Exports play a significant role in supporting a stable interest rate and ex-change rates thus renewing investors confidence and recovery. – Med Jones
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. – Mahatma Gandhi
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. – Mark Twain
To play it safe is not to play. – Robert Altman
Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell. – Peter Brock
Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences. – Benjamin Disraeli
Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. – Carl Gustav Jung
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. – Charles Langbridge Morgan
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. – H. E. Luccock
Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what IS that thing – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. – Vince Lombardi
Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody. – Happy Gilmore
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. – E. Joseph Crossman
Think it’s my fear and fascination for women that makes my images.If you look really closely, the men are always supporting roles, a shadow play and always inferior. – Czon
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow. – J. A. Spender
. . .you said good friends are hard to come by I laughed and bought you a beer 'cause it's too corny to cry well sentiment given and sentiment lost you shook it off with a smirk and a toss and you were only joking. – Amy Ray
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means. – Eugene E. Brussell
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. – Russell Wayne Baker
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. – P. J. O'Rourke
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. – Addison
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. – G. Gordon Liddy
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results. – Benjamin Disraeli
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. – Sacha Guitry

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