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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Our business is run on trust. We trust you will pay in advance. | |
| Indomitable in retreat; invincible in advance; insufferable in victory. -- Winston Churchill, on General Montgomery | |
| Rocky's Lemma of Innovation Prevention: Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal. | |
| SMOKING IS NOW ALLOWED !!! Anyone wishing to smoke, however, must file, in triplicate, the U.S. government Environmental Impact Narrative Statement (EINS), describing in detail the type of combustion proposed, impact on the environment, and anticipated opposition. Statements must be filed 30 days in advance. | |
| We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra" | |
| Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance. | |
| If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would be to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be be expected to throw another party next year. What you should do is throw the kind of party where your guest wake up several days from now and call their lawyers to find out if they've been indicted for anything. You want your guests to be so anxious to avoid a recurrence of your party that they immediately start planning parties of their own, a year in advance, just to prevent you from having another one ... If your party is successful, the police will knock on your door, unless your party is very successful in which case they will lob tear gas through your living room window. As host, your job is to make sure that they don't arrest anybody. Or if they're dead set on arresting someone, your job is to make sure it isn't you ... -- Dave Barry | |
| You could get a new lease on life -- if only you didn't need the first and last month in advance. | |
