Fact and Funny Sayings

ABILITY


Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.
What one cannot, another can.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions.
There is not need to show your ability before everyone.
Everyone excels in something in which others fails.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else do the work.
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.



ABSENCE


I was court-martialled in my absence and sentence to death in my absence, so I said they should shoot me in my absence.
Heart soon forgets what the eye sees not.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Absence diminishes little passion and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
The absences are always wrong.



ABSTINENCE

It is easier to abstain than to restrain.





ABUSE


There is more credit in being abused by fools then praised by rogues.
Abuse is a weapon of the vulgar.
There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.


ACADEMIA

The average PH.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.




ACCIDENTS

The best insurance against car accidents is a Sunday afternoon nap.



ACCOMPLISHMENT

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.


ACCURACY


Even a stop clock is right twice a day.





ACHIEVEMENT


Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Don’t let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
Three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first: hard work, second: stick-to-itiveness; third: common sense.



ACTING

1. Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.



ACTION

Actions speak louder than words.
The best way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
It is by acting and not by ideas that people live.
The shortest answer is doing.
Action makes more fortunes than caution.
Action takes precedence over study.



ACTIVITY


1. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.



ACTOR

An actor is a guy who takes a girl in his arms, looks tenderly into her eyes, and tells her how great he is.
The only thing an actor fears more than losing is mind- is regaining it.
The one nice thing about actors- they don’t go around talking about people.