Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
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Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
I was just reading about an English professor who is amused by misattributed quotes: an example he gave was, "There is nothing new under the sun," which many people believe comes from Shakespeare; it's from the Bible: Eccl 1:9.
Then the author posed this question: What is the origin of the admonition, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?
Any ideas?
Then the author posed this question: What is the origin of the admonition, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?
Any ideas?
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Very good.
"It is the part of a wise man to ... not venture all his eggs in one basket" - Don Quixote
Did you know this since time immemorial, or did you do a quick Google search?
"It is the part of a wise man to ... not venture all his eggs in one basket" - Don Quixote
Did you know this since time immemorial, or did you do a quick Google search?
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I prefer Churchhill:
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Sir Winston Churchill
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Sir Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key.
Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in March 1946
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Sir Winston Churchill
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Sir Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key.
Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in March 1946
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
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From: 3rd bedroom on the right
Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature prime English beef.
She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Sex in the City" comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot oil.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
Even in his last years, Grandad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
"Oh, Jason, take me!"; she panted, her breasts heaving like a Uni student on $1-a-beer night.
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword
She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
Similes Found in NSW Year 12(final year before University) English essays.
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature prime English beef.
She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Sex in the City" comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot oil.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
Even in his last years, Grandad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
"Oh, Jason, take me!"; she panted, her breasts heaving like a Uni student on $1-a-beer night.
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword
She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
Similes Found in NSW Year 12(final year before University) English essays.
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Intelligent men build machines to do the sport for them.
If at first you don't succeed, try domination.
A plane is faster than a car, but you can't chirp second in a plane.
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
Top fuel is the science of destroying a motor.
Lie to her. It's OK to lie to women; they're not people like us.
Eating is murder!
You look beautiful! Incidentally, my favorite artist is Picasso.
Monopoly? That's just a game. I'm trying to control the
ing world.
Jamaican? I thought you were some kind of outer space potatoe man.
Nothing drives a woman crazy like a big 'ol Easter basket on her bunny.
Yes, but they won't listen. Everyone's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooooohh, suddenly you've gone too far.
If at first you don't succeed, try domination.
A plane is faster than a car, but you can't chirp second in a plane.
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
Top fuel is the science of destroying a motor.
Lie to her. It's OK to lie to women; they're not people like us.
Eating is murder!
You look beautiful! Incidentally, my favorite artist is Picasso.
Monopoly? That's just a game. I'm trying to control the
ing world.Jamaican? I thought you were some kind of outer space potatoe man.
Nothing drives a woman crazy like a big 'ol Easter basket on her bunny.
Yes, but they won't listen. Everyone's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooooohh, suddenly you've gone too far.