Certainty is foolish ---- It’s not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.

Certainty is impossible — we see through a glass, darkly.

Certainty is an absurd one.

Certainty is dangerous — Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Contract is an agreement made up of big words and little type.

A Contract is a deceptive document — The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

A Contract is worthless if not written — a verbal contract is not worth the paper it's printed on.

A Contract is a document written by lawyers for lawyers in order to make people immediately realise that they cannot do without lawyers.

A Forecast is to predict that an event will happen, if it does, by basing calculations on events that have already happened, if they did. (One may forecast and be right, wrong, or neither. It depends.)

A Forecast is to observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again

A Forecast is to anticipate the future by guessing at the past.

A Forecast is just a guess by someone who holds an academic degree.

Investment is wise — Put no trust in money; put your money in trust.

Investment is tricky — never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Investment is never done without risk — it costs money to make money.

Investment is a fishing line baited with a herring in the hope of catching a marlin, which briefly flirts and tugs - then escapes with our offering in its belly, prompting us to stick another herring on the hook.