A Quotes
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“A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.”
“A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine.”
“A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.”
Source: House of All Nations
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”
“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
“A bank is a relationship. I can't desert you and expect to have a strong relationship afterward. If I told someone, "I know you've been buying milk from me and you need milk to survive. But the price is no longer $2 a gallon. It's going to be $40 a gallon. I'm going to bankrupt you." What do you guys think of me? You would hate us.”
“A bank is but honesty with a premium. At least this is what it is supposed to be.”
Source: The Sunrise's Commandment
“A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment.”
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
Source: The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions
“A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.”
“A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.”
“A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even.”
“A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.”
“A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.”
“A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.”
“A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“A bar would not be a good career move for you.”
Source: Manhunting
“A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.”
Source: Big Planet
“A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.”
“A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe.
[Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.]”
“A barbeque in Jasper County does not mean hamburgers and chicken breasts on a fancy gas grill. Yankees call anything you cook outside "barbeque." The word 'barbeque' in Ray's neck of the woods is a 'noun,' not a verb, and it means a whole hog tied to a spit with chicken wire and rope and roasted in an outdoor oven, usually in someone's backyard or some parking lot. And the fixin's that must accompany it are baked beans, collard greens, white rolls, cole slaw, and rice topped with a sweet gravy made from the drippings and other unmentionables that the packs call hash. Jasper folks sort of take the "don't ask, don't tell" approach with the hash. 'We don't want to know what's in it,' Ray thinks, 'but it sure tastes good.”
Source: The Wedding Machine
“A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.”
Source: Literary Lapses
“A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.”
“A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.”
“A bargain is a bargain.”
Source: Mother Bombie
“A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.”
“A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.”
“A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.”
“A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.”
Source: Works of Washington Irving
“A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.”
Source: Prairie Christmas
“A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.”
“A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!”
“A barrell full of certainties won't roll very far.”
“A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.”
Source: Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
“A barrier is of ideas, not of things.”
“A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.”
“A barriga queimada da prancha de isopor, os peixes vistos com a máscara, a estrela que eu e minhas primas fazíamos com as pernas, as frutas que falávamos embaixo d’água para alguém entender, a demência, o amor puro, os caldos, os jacarés, a negociação com Netuno – só mais um pouco, nos deixe viver, só mais um pouco.”
Source: Tudo o que já nadei: Ressaca, quebra-mar e marolinhas
“A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.”
“A base de tropezar, espero, aprenderé a caminar de nuevo, y cuanto más camine más me alejaré de ti, hasta llegar a un momento en que tu recuerdo no sea más que una pequeña mota en el horizonte, a punto de fundirse con el amanecer de un sol radiante que me lleve a entornar los ojos en la última mirada que, al fin, te concederé.”
“A base wardrobe is an ensemble of elegantly simple, neutral-hued pieces free of intricate cuts, lavish embellishments, or overpowering prints.”
Source: Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules
“A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.”
“A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.”
“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.”
“A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.”
Source: The Business of Life
“A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.”
Source: Fatherhood
“A baseball manager is a necessary evil.”
“A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.”
Source: Reggie