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    Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
    He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the
Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an
open market.
    If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarries then he
should not accept of the Earth that which he refuses to give of
himself.

    Such a man would expect a pear of a peach tree.
    Such a man would expect a stone to lay an egg.
    Such a man would expect Sears to assemble a lawnmower.
        -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"

Then there was the ScoutMaster who got a fantastic deal on this case of
Tates brand compasses for his troup; only $1.25 each!  Only problem was,
when they got them out in the woods, the compasses were all stuck pointing
to the "W" on the dial.

Moral:
    He who has a Tates is lost!

There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break
about even for all of us.  I have observed, for example, that we all get
about the same amount of ice.  The rich get it in the summer and the poor
get it in the winter.
        -- Bat Masterson

There are worse things in life than death.  Have you ever spent an evening
with an insurance salesman?
        -- Woody Allen

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.
        -- Thomas W. Lamont, October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday)

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital
and labour.  As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting
each other's throat.
        -- Brooks Atkinson, "Once Around the Sun"

There is hardly a thing in the world that some man can not make a little
worse and sell a little cheaper.

There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.

There is no Father Christmas.  It's just a marketing ploy to make low income
parents' lives a misery.  ...  I want you to picture the trusting face of a
child, streaked with tears because of what you just said.  I want you to
picture the face of its mother, because one week's dole won't pay for one
Master of the Universe Battlecruiser!
        -- Filthy Rich and Catflap

There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.