“Barney Rubble: [while looking over the hot piano] Hold it? Do you get a guarantee with it? Eighty-Eight Fingers Louie: Certainly. I guarantee it's a piano. And when Eighty-Eight Fingers Louie makes that guarantee he stands by it.”— Warren Foster, Barney Rubble, Mel Blanc, imdb.com
“You reflect that he is worth twenty thousand dollars, and you incur no risk by endorsing his note; you like to accommodate him, and you lend your name without taking the precaution of getting security. Shortly after, he shows you the note with your endorsement canceled, and tells you, probably truly…”— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com