Small Bills

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. - Socrates

Polite conversation is rarely either. - Fran Lebowitz

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. - Booker T. Washington

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. - Michael Moore

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships. - Eric Metaxas

Hand Scanner: Singles bar prowler looking for wedding rings - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts. - Homer Simpson

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - Max De Pree

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. - Truman Capote

Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. - Roul Turley

I wanted a man who wouldn't stray so I'm dating a guy on house arrest. - Kim Bove

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale. - Chris Brogan

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

But we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what's in it. - Nancy Pelosi

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. - Elizabeth Clarke Dunn

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No matter how much fame and fortune you achieve, don't get wrapped up in yourself. - Dal Richards

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. - James Allen

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. - Lin Yutang

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - Malcolm S Forbes

If a man's character is to be abused, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. - Alexander Pope

Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike. - Theodore Roosevelt

I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks. - Donald Trump

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. - Albert Einstein

The average auto owner drives so blamed reckless I'm glad that he does git robbed when he pays a repair bill. - Kin Hubbard

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. - Toni Morrison

It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people. - Axl Rose

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup. - J G Ballard

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all. - Erik Erikson

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better. - J K Rowling

Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. - Groucho Marx