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Monday, November 17, 2008

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
~Author : John Buchan Great Sayings

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~Author : Austin Powers International Man of Mystery Meaningful Sayings

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them that's the essense of inhumanity.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Wise Quotes

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
~Author : Henry Kissinger New York Times Oct 28 1973 Motivational Sayings

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
~Author : Cicero Famous Quotes

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
~Author : Carolyn Kenmore Inspirational Sayings

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
~Author : Rosalynn Carter Wife of jimmy Carter 39th president Inspirational Sayings

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
~Author : Sydney Smith Nice Quotes

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
~Author : O A Battista Great Sayings

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
~Author : Mary Beth Danielson Meaningful Sayings

Sometimes I think the so-called experts actually ARE experts.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Wise Quotes

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
~Author : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Motivational Sayings

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
~Author : Seneca Famous Quotes

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
~Author : Jim Grue Famous Quotes

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
~Author : Zora Neale Hurston Inspirational Sayings

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
~Author : Matthew Prior Nice Quotes

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away--and barefoot.
~Author : Sarah Jackson Great Sayings

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Rambler 18 Meaningful Sayings

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
~Author : Alvin Toffler Wise Quotes

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
~Author : Mark Twain Motivational Sayings

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
~Author : Henry Louis Mencken Famous Quotes

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
~Author : George Herbert Inspirational Sayings

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.
~Author : Gloria Steinem Nice Quotes

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
~Author : Jawaharlal Nehru Great Sayings

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
~Author : William Saroyan Meaningful Sayings

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
~Author : Ann Landers Wise Quotes

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
~Author : Joseph Addison Great Sayings

I say, thou mad March hare.
~Author : John Skelton Meaningful Sayings

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
~Author : Andr Maurois Wise Quotes

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
~Author : Chinese proverb Famous Quotes

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
~Author : Maya Angelou Inspirational Sayings

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nice Quotes

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
~Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley Great Sayings

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
~Author : Jacques le Blanc French ambassador on nuclear weapons Famous Quotes

To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
~Author : Woody Allen Inspirational Sayings

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
~Author : Gertrude Stein The Geographical History of America Nice Quotes

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
~Author : Dean Koontz Great Sayings

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?
~Author : Winston Churchill Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia Meaningful Sayings

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
~Author : Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Wise Quotes

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
~Author : Bernard Berenson Motivational Sayings

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
~Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Famous Quotes

If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
~Author : Alan B Watts Inspirational Sayings

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
~Author : Antoine De SaintExupery Famous Quotes

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.
~Author : Tom Masson Inspirational Sayings

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
~Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Nice Quotes

The wicked at heart probably know something.
~Author : Woody Allen Without Feathers Great Sayings

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
~Author : Karl Popper Meaningful Sayings

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)
~Author : Lucius Accius Telephus Wise Quotes

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
~Author : Eugene McCarthy Motivational Sayings

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