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“What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?”

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Malcolm Forbes was an accomplished publisher, best known for his leadership of Forbes magazine, a globally renowned business and finance publication. Under his tenure, Forbes magazine was transformed into a global brand. more

“There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear.... None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of.”

“To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.”

“On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.”

New York Tough Size Customers Restaurants Palms Steak Claws Schwarzenegger Lobster

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.”

Two Naps Winni The Pooh Winnie The Pooh Life

Author:A. A. Milne

“Grace alone brings about every good work in us.”

Grace Very Good Good Work

Author:Saint Augustine

“Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.”

Cream

Book:Confessions of an S.O.B.

Source: Confessions of an S.O.B.

“Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism”

Principles Fundamentals Fundamental Principles Mormonism

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.”

Firsts Praying Makers Inventor Rosary Plowing

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.”

Can Do Can Do Something

Book:Now And Then

Source: Now And Then

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