Charles Adams Quotations

If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.

Secession by the South was a reaction against Lincoln's high-tax policy. In 1861 the slave issue was not critical.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

If an S and an I and an O and a U - With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, - Pray what is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and a G - And an HED spell side, There's nothing much left for a speller to do, But to g

The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Any exposed piping, go ahead and cover it with foam insulation.

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

You peel the back of the tape off, so when you go around the door, it seals those gaps off.

This is your standard bulb. I can plug in the energy saving bulb that's equal to the incandescent bulb as you can see.

It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.

Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you????

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time.

Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.

The course has a strong practical element. Although it covers the theory of corrosion, the main emphasis is on practical advice based on actual examples from the yachting industry.