A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Funny, Thinking, Thought You May Also Like A committee is a group that takes minutes and wastes hours. By Anonymous Committees, Funny, Sarcasm, Sarcastic When all think alike, then no one is thinking. By Walter Lippmann Groupthink, Independent, Thinking, Thought I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. By Jane Austen Agreeable, Funny A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. By Marvin Kitman Courage, Cowardice, Funny Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half. By John Wanamaker (attrib.) Advertising, Funny, Sarcastic I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. By Noel Coward (attrib.) Funny, Memory You May Also Like from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory … there’s nothing that keeps its youth / So far as I know, but a tree and truth. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Truth, Youth A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Facts, Wisdom Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. . . . By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory, Old age, Youth Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Ambition A lecture ought to be something which all can understand, about something which interests everybody. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Public speaking, Wise
A committee is a group that takes minutes and wastes hours. By Anonymous Committees, Funny, Sarcasm, Sarcastic
When all think alike, then no one is thinking. By Walter Lippmann Groupthink, Independent, Thinking, Thought
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. By Jane Austen Agreeable, Funny
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half. By John Wanamaker (attrib.) Advertising, Funny, Sarcastic
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. By Noel Coward (attrib.) Funny, Memory
Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory
… there’s nothing that keeps its youth / So far as I know, but a tree and truth. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Truth, Youth
A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Facts, Wisdom
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. . . . By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory, Old age, Youth
A lecture ought to be something which all can understand, about something which interests everybody. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Public speaking, Wise
