Charles E. McKenzie Quotes

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.

Free advice is often overpriced.

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.

Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one.