Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.
There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i. e. , on your future production.
Drop dead-but first get permit
Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.
Never guess your wife's size. Just buy anything marked petite and hold on to the receipt.
Karma is not a receipt of a physical experience, because of what someone has done.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts.
