Branden Trollan

The grass is greener... where you water it.

David Ogilvy

If you always hire people who are smaller than you are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. If, on the other hand, you always hire people who are bigger then you are, we shall become a company of giants.

Alan Lakein

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Steven Moffat

Sad is happy for deep people.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

Scott Adams

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.

General George S. Patton

You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do.

Ben Sweetland

One of life’s greatest laws is that you cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening your own as well.

Chuck Noland

I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Stephen F. Roberts

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

E.F. Schumacker

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Robert Louis Stevenson, famous Scottish novelist

Everything in life is selling.

Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

P. T. Barnum

Early in his career, P. T. Barnum created an exhibit, entitled "The Happy Family," consisting of a cage housing a lion, a tiger, a panther - and a baby lamb. The remarkable display earned Barnum unprecedented publicity and attendance figures. Some time after its opening, Barnum was asked about his plans for the happy family. "The display will become a permanent feature," he declared, "if the supply of lambs holds out."

[Turkish President Süleyman Demirel once alluded to this anecdote while addressing criticism of his handling of the Islamic movement in Turkey.]

Barnum, Phineas Taylor (1810-1891) American showman, founder of the emonymous circus (in 1871) [noted for his shrewd business acumen]

[Sources: L. Davidson, Wit's Thesaurus; Turkish Daily News, 12 April, 1998]