Quotations for Every Business Occasion You can build a throne on bayonets but you cant sit on it for long. --Boris Yeltsin If no one ever took risks Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor. --Neil Simon Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States. --Porfirio Diaz The two things that people want more than sex or money are recognition and praise. --Mary Kay Ash What the large print giveth the small print taketh away. --Anonymous The opposite of talking isnt listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. --Fran Lebowitz I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone. --F. Lee Bailey I am convinced that if most members of Congress did their own taxes we would have had tax reform long ago. --Bill Archer