Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. Thornton Wilder
Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down. Bill Gates
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. Carroll Quigley
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. Daniel Inouye
Only a dupe checks the depth of the water with both feet. Botswana Proverb