big words for little matters|Nothing is particularly hard if you
divide it into small jobs|The art of being wise is the art
of knowing what to overlook|You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try|A man's reach must exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?|The secret of making oneself tiresome
is not to know when to stop|When your work speaks for
itself, don't interrupt|The best way to cheer yourself
up is to try to cheer somebody else up|A foolish consistency is
the hobgoblin of little minds|When you are in Rome
live in the Roman style|A salesman has got to dream, boy.
It comes with the territory|To thine own self be true|Do not the most moving moments
of our lives find us without words?|Egotism is the anesthetic
that dulls the pain of stupidity|Men are not against you;
they are merely for themselves|Zest is the secret of all beauty|Conceit is God's gift to little men|A committee is a group that
keeps minutes and loses hours|No one can make you feel
inferior without your consent|Laugh at yourself first, before anybody else can|If you have a job without aggravations,
you don't have a job|You will always underestimate the future|No nation has friends, only interests|Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times|If a man has common sense,
he has all the sense there is|If horses could paint they
would draw gods like horses|All simple statements are wrong|A pinch of probably is worth a pound of perhaps|The most difficult secret for a man to keep
is his own opinion of himself|The average score for bowlers is 154 points|
A perfect game in bowling is 300 points|100 words in the English language constitute
75% of the words most often used|Red blood cells live 120 days|
Benjamin Franklin is the
inventor of swim fins|Over 30,000 books are copyrighted
in the United States every year|The English word with the most
consecutive vowel sounds is queueing|The word with the most consecutive
consonants in a row is latchstring|E is the most commonly used letter in
English|The word smog was invented by a London
newspaper editor in 1905|In 1978 Americans ate 2 billion pounds
of cookies|Over half of all American households have
a Sears credit card|An average person eats about a ton of
food and drink a year|A gorilla lives about 60 years|Heartbeats per minute: mouse 50; human
80; elephant 20|A marathoner runs at a speed of 10 miles
per hour|A ping pong ball weighs about one-tenth
of an ounce|The glue on the back of a postage stamp
contains 1/10 of a calorie|Three out of four Utah residents is
Mormon|In 1982, 1,861 million books were sold
in America|The most likely roll of two dice is 7
(1/6th of the time)|The address of the White House is 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC|There is no education like adversity|
He who waits to do a great deal of good
at once will never do anything|Common sense is instinct, and enough of
it is genius|Better bend than break|He is well paid that is well satisfied|
Men do not stumble over mountains, but
molehills|It is not worthwhile to go around the
world to count the cats in Zanzibar|See one promontory, one mountain, one
sea, one river, and see all|If you don't say anything, you won't be
called upon to repeat it|Any fool can make a rule, and every fool
will mind it|Zeus was the ruler of the heavens|The three most frequently used words
are: the; of; and|The, of, and, to, and a account for 18%
of written words|He jests at scars that never felt a
wound|If the blind lead the blind, both shall
fall into a ditch|Be nice to people on your way up because
you'll meet them on your way down|Our best thoughts come from others|
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant
man in argument|Brevity is the soul of wit|A verbal contract isn't worth the paper
it's written on|No army can understand the strength of
an idea whose time has come|Every reform movement has a lunatic
fringe|Reckless youth makes rueful age|In quarreling the truth is always lost|Nothing endures but personal qualities|All I know is what I see in the papers|The heart is never neutral|The love of money is the root of all
evil|A fool and his money are soon parted|Misery acquaints a man with strange
bedfellows|The better part of valor is discretion|Cleverness is not wisdom|In the world of the blind, the one-eyed