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Ever needed that perfect quote for your sales letter? And probably spent hours searching for one. Search no more. Quite a few of them are now at your fingertips. Free of charge!

I have maintained a collection of tag lines to put either at the end of, or in text that (as images) could save me hundreds of words. Some quotes are so well-phrased that making up something similar could take quite a bit of time.

As a special New Year gift to everyone, I offer these quotes in a list form you might be able to use. No strings attached!

Happy New Year. I wish you will truly make 2007 the best year ever!

Here are my favourites:

… “A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies.” (William Wrigley Jr.)

… “A successful marriage isn’t finding the right person – it’s being the right person.” (Gabriel Browne)

… “A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night; a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life.” (Ana Alas)

… “An honest man is one who knows he can’t consume more than he has produced.” (Ayn Rand)

… “An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.” (Robert A. Humphrey)

… “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” (Abraham Lincoln)

… “Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.” (Anonymous)

… “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” (Pablo Picasso)

… “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.” (H. L. Mencken)

… “Do more than exist; live. Do more than touch; feel. Do more than look; observe. Do more than read; absorb. Do more than hear; listen. Do more than listen; understand. Do more than think; ponder. Do more than talk; say something.” (John H. Rhoades)

… “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” (Will Durant)

… “Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn.” (Frank A. Clark)

… “Experience teaches only the teachable.” (Aldous Huxley)

… “Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.” (Dottie Walters)

… “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” (John F. Kennedy)

… “Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.” (Thomas Jones)

… “Going to church doesn`t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile” [William Ashley "Billy" Sunday, American evangelist (1862-1935)]

… “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” (Albert Einstein)

… “Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” (Michael Levine)

… “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.” (John Stuart Mill)

… “Hearts are of crystals – once broken, they cannot be mended again.” (Saiyed Arif)

… “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” (Gandhi)

… “I consider Windows like I consider bad weather … I accept it and hope for something better”

… “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” (Patrick Henry)

… “I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.” (Bern Williams)

… “If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” (Henry Ford, 1863-1947 – founder of Ford Motor Company)

… “If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” (Doug Larson)

… “If you don’t trust gold, do you trust the logic of taking a beautiful pine tree, worth about $4,000 – $5,000, cutting it up, turning it into pulp and then paper, putting some ink on it and then calling it one billion dollars?” (Kenneth J. Gerbino)

… “In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.” (Woody Allen)

… “It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” (Abraham Lincoln)

… “It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.” (Jean de La Brupere)

… “It is because I am what I am, objectionable though that appears to my critics, that I win battles.” (Orde Wingate)

… “It is easier to be critical than correct.” (Benjamin Disraeli)

… “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” (Antoine Saint-Exupry)

… “Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.” (Josh Billings)

… “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” (Louis Pasteur)

… “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” (Soren Kierkegaard)

… “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” (George Bernard Shaw)

… “Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.” (George Clemenceau)

… “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” (Abraham Lincoln)

… “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

… “Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. (Nero Wolfe)

… “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” (Henry Ford)

… “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” (Albert Einstein)

… “Open your eyes, and look within… Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?” (Bob Marley)

… “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” (Sun Tzu)

… “Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” (Baruch Spinoza)

… “People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.” (W. Somerset Maugham)

… “People who say you’re just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.” (Russell Baker)

… “Procrastination is the grave in which we bury our dreams.” (Amy Robertson)

… “Some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.” (unknown)

… “Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan.” (American Proverb)

… “The best advice is found on the pillow.” (Danish Proverb)

… “The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.” (Persian Proverb)

… “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.” (Ellen Hubbard)

… “The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.” (Winston Churchill)

… “The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.” (Joseph Heller)

… “The road to success is always under construction.” (Anonymous)

… “The times I feel most empty are when I’m most full of myself.” (Ron Barnes)

… “The truth does not care who tells it.” (Kathryne Smith)

… “Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” (Ben Hecht)

… “Visits always give pleasure if not the arrival, the departure.” (Portuguese Proverb)

… “Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.” (Jim Bishop)

… “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.” (C.S. Lewis)

… “We never know the worth of water ’til the well is dry.” (English Proverb)

… “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

… “When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.” (Wilson Mizner)

… “Whoever says ‘Nothing is impossible’ has never tried to slam a revolving door.” (Willy Walker)

… “You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. (Leo Aikman)

… “You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.” (Indira Gandhi)

… “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” (Abraham Lincoln)

… “A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it’s longer than any hour. That is relativity.” (Albert Einstein)

… “If there is no knowledge, there is no understanding; if there is no understanding, there is no knowledge.” (The Talmud)

… “The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” (Hubert H. Humphrey) (1911-1978) US Senator (D-MN)

… “We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.” (Voltaire)

… “While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.” (Walter Lippmann) (1889-1974)

… “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” (Albert Einstein)

… “It is not because things are difficult that we don’t try, it is because we don’t try that things are difficult!” (Justin du Preez)

… “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”(Rich Cook)

… “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” (Roy Goodman)

… “Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” (Igor Stravinsky)

… “Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” (Aaron Levenstein)

… “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” (Walter Winchell)

… “A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.” (Anonymous)

… “Hate, jealousy and bitterness are like taking poison and hoping the other guy dies.” (Unknown)

… “Well, dinner would have been splendid… if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.”(Winston Churchill)

… “When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.” (Marcel Achard)

… “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

… “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” (Niels Bohr)

… “History repeats itself; that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.” (Clarence Darrow)

… “Never judge a book by its movie.” (J.W. Eagan)

… “Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.” [Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)]

… “I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.” (Tom Lehrer)

… “Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”(Stephen Leacock)

… “Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.” (Hoshang N. Akhtar)

… “Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.” (Niels Bohr)

… “Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.” (Charlotte Whitton)

… “All the hackers out there figure if they can hack Kevin Mitnick’s site, they’re the king of the hill.” (Kevin Mitnick)

… “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” (George E. Woodberry)

… “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” (Winston Churchill)

… “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” (Thomas Carruthers)

… “If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.” (Dale Carnegie)

… “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” (Samuel Butler)

… “I am not smart because I use a dictionary; I use a dictionary because I am smart.” (Keely Waltrip Pack)

… “To teach is to learn twice.” (Joseph Joubert)

… “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” (Albert Einstein)

… “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” (Bertrand Russell)

… “Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.” (Rabbi H. Schachtel)

… “It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.” (Thomas Arnold Bennett)

… “Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.” (Heinrich Heine Almansor)

… “All men who have achieved great things have been dreamers.” (Orison Swett Marden)

… “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”(Andre Gide)

… “Instead of complaining about the thorns amid the roses, you should be grateful for the roses among the thorns.” (Linda Subat)

… “Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.” (George Burns)

… “There is nothing as consistent as change.” (Glenda Smith)

… “The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.” (Edith Sitwell)

… “Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.” (Rev. Peter Marshall)

… “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” (Anonymous)

… “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” (Thomas Jefferson)

… “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say ‘Thank You?’” (William A. Ward)

… “The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.” (Brian Pickrell)

… “The good things that come to those who wait may only be the leftovers of those who got there first.” (Anonymous)

… “There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network.” (Guy Almes)

… “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” (Winston Churchill)

… “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”(Niels Bohr)

… “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

… “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.” (George Bernard Shaw)

… “Don’t walk ahead of me for I may not follow; don’t walk behind me for I may not lead; just walk beside me and be my friend.”(Albert Camus)

… “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” (William Arthur Ward)

… “Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” (G. M. Trevelyan)

… “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” (Plato)

… “The best mindset is the one that has a goal.” (Michael Wilkinson)

… “Having a smoking section in a restaurant is the same as having a peeing section in a swimming pool.” (Robin Williams)

… “A mind is like a parachute it only works when it is open.” (Anonymous)

… “Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.” (George Carlin)

… “The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.” (Anonymous)

… “People only think a thing’s worth believing in if it’s hard to believe.” (Arminger Barclay)

… “There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”(Jeremy S. Anderson)

… “People everywhere confuse, What they read in newspapers with news.” (Abbott Joseph Liebling)

… “The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.” (David Riesman)

… “I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead From a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself. (D. H. Lawrence)

… Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way. (Ronald Reagan, former US President)

… “If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?” (Albert Einstein)

… “The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.” [Ronald Reagan,40th President (1911-2004)]

… “Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.” (Adolf Hitler)

… “Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.” (Leo Tolstoy)

… “”Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.” (Rudolph Rummel)

… “Darwinism is an exercise in creative bookkeeping for hiding that its explanatory debts far exceed its explanatory resources.” (William A. Dembski)

… “Just as wisdom is not something you can feel with your hands, so G-dliness is not something you can grasp with your mind” (Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi)

… The trouble with life is there’s no background music.

… Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

… If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

… Terrorist memo: Bush is listening. Use big words.

… The generation that criticizes the younger generation is the one that raised it.

… The universe is a figment of its own imagination.

… A chrysanthemum by any other name would be much easier to spell

… The car is designed by computer, built by a robot, driven by a moron.

… The value of a dog is its constant reminder of how much fun it is to act idiotic.

… There is no future in time travel.

… I figured out Victoria’s secret. Starvation and liposuction

… There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

… Light bulb’s love declaration: I love you a whole watt!

… The only thing wrong with a perfect drive to work is that you end up at work.

… “In any event, let me assure you that Perl 6 will not be as difficult to learn as Japanese.” (Larry Wall)

… “Software is like sex; it’s better when it’s free.” (Linus Torvalds)

… “Whether or not the person understands [Torah ], the soul hears” (Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch)

… “This is the meaning of “Love your fellow as yourself”: Just like you are blind to your own failings, since your self-love covers them up, so, too, should your fellow’s failings be swallowed up and concealed by your love for him” (Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch [1789-1866])

… Our highways have become insane asylums with turn signals

… Are you ready for a drought yet?

… Ten years from now, many antiques will be made of plastic.

… I’m so old I remember “car phones.”

… The new “Win for Life” lottery is not going over real big here in the nursing home

… On I-80, the official bird of California is a hand gesture.

… Clutter is my trademark.

… Everything has been outsourced because our corporations are greedy.

… Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen

… Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

… Before taking a long trip, fill your tank and empty your bladder.

… If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops

… Never mistake asthma for passion

… Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground.

… A journey of a thousand miles begins with Dad saying, “I know a shortcut.”

… “There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.” (Seneca)

… “I never imagined I would live to see the day when the United States and its satellites would use precisely the same arguments that the apartheid government used for detention without trial. It is disgraceful” (Archbishop Desmond Tutu)

… My secretary stopped answering the phone. She said, “It’s always for you.”

… A better deadline for our taxes than April 15… how about February 31?

… Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

… Goodbye, tension … Hello, pension!

… G-d gives every bird it’s food … but he doesn’t throw it into its nest.

… Hindsight is an exact science

… Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

… Fax me no questions and I’ll telex you no lies.

… Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your mouth is moving.

… Forbidden fruit creates many jams.

… History repeats itself anyway… plagarism saves time.

… 2 people in every 1 is a schizophrenic.

… Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.

… Our government really takes care of us. They even give us free income tax forms!

I hope you may find some of them relevant for “spicing” up some of your own sales letters. Good luck.