Using Commas (and other sentence punctuation) --Basic


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1. Pro football is like nuclear warfare There are no winners only survivors. Frank Gifford
2. Know thyself? If I knew myself I'd run away. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. The best computer is a man and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. Wernher Von Braun
4. It is a profitable thing if one is wise to seem foolish. Aeschylus
5. If thine enemy offend thee give his child a drum. Anonymous
6. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown
7. If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
8. Don't try to make children grow up to be like you or they may do it. Russell Baker
9. A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus and he's still upset. James Gould Cozzens
10. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. Winston Churchill
11. [Prime Minister Joseph] Chamberlain loves the working man he loves to see him work. Winston Churchill
12. After all all he did was string together a lot of old well-known quotations. H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare
13. Try not to have a good time this is supposed to be educational. Charles Schulz
14. There are three rules for writing a novel Unfortunately no one knows what they are. Somerset Maugham
15. When you come to a fork in the road take it. Yogi Berra
16. If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm. Vince Lombardi
17. Do not regret growing old many are denied the privilege.
18. Age is an issue of mind over matter If you don't mind it doesn't matter. Mark Twain
19. The metric system did not really catch on in the States unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. Dave Barry
20. At Group L Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. The Washington Post Magazine
21. If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem If you owe the bank $100 million that's the bank's problem. John Paul Getty
22. It is impossible to travel faster than light and certainly not desirable as one's hat keeps blowing off.Woody Allen
23. If at first you don't succeed you're running about average. M.H. Alderson
24. If I had to live my life again I'd make the same mistakes only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead
25. Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. Dave Barry
26. The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way. Josh Billings
27. If you think education is expensive try ignorance. Derek Bok
28. Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental" you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add "we must be realistic" they mean they are going to make money out of it. Brigid Brophy
29. Every sale has five basic obstacles no need no money no hurry no desire no trust. Zig Ziglar