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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~Author : Carl Gustav Jung Nice Quotes

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.
~Author : Jean R Langley Great Sayings

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
~Author : Henry Thoreau Meaningful Sayings

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
~Author : Groucho Marx Wise Quotes

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
~Author : Patrick Henry Motivational Sayings

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
~Author : Margaret Mead Famous Quotes

Time discovers truth.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Inspirational Sayings

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
~Author : Richard Bach Nice Quotes

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
~Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky Inspirational Sayings

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Nice Quotes

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
~Author : Izaak Walton Great Sayings

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
~Author : Emanuel Swedenborg From the book Arcana Coelestia 8455 Meaningful Sayings

We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.
~Author : Virginia Hanson Wise Quotes

An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.
~Author : Fred Allen Motivational Sayings

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
~Author : Alexander Penney Famous Quotes

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Trine Inspirational Sayings

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.
~Author : President George Bush quoted in Asiaweek magazine Famous Quotes

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself
~Author : Lawrence Peter Berra Inspirational Sayings

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
~Author : Napoleon Nice Quotes

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Great Sayings

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
~Author : Leonard Bernstein Wise Quotes

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
~Author : Sir Walter Besant Motivational Sayings

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
~Author : Alexander Pope Famous Quotes

Sunday, September 21, 2008

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
~Author : Frank Zappa Liner notes from the album Freak Out 1965 Great Sayings
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Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.
~Author : Anonymous Meaningful Sayings

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
~Author : John Vance Cheney Wise Quotes

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
~Author : Francois Fenelon Motivational Sayings

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?
~Author : Buddha 563 483 BC Famous Quotes

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
~Author : Winston Churchill Inspirational Sayings

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Jr Nice Quotes

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.
~Author : Anne Frank from The Diary of a Young Girl January 5 1944 Great Sayings

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.
~Author : Cicero Meaningful Sayings

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
~Author : Joseph Chilton Pearce Wise Quotes

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.
~Author : Brad Bell Motivational Sayings

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
~Author : Alphonse Karr Famous Quotes

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
~Author : Arthur Wing Pinero Inspirational Sayings

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
~Author : Euripides Nice Quotes

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
~Author : Calvin Coolidge in a telegram 1919 Famous Quotes

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
~Author : Langston Hughes Inspirational Sayings

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
~Author : Marcel Proust Nice Quotes

I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
~Author : William Blake Marriage of Heaven and Hell Great Sayings

"Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
~Author : Edward BulwerLytton Meaningful Sayings

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
~Author : Prince Charles of Wales Wise Quotes

Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Motivational Sayings

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
~Author : F Nietzsche The Wanderer and His Shadow Famous Quotes

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Nice Quotes

I wish you all the joy you can wish.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings
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I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
~Author : Voltaire Meaningful Sayings

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Wise Quotes

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
~Author : Stanislaw Lec Motivational Sayings

...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.
~Author : Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary ch 12 Famous Quotes

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
~Author : Arthur Wellesley first Duke of Wellington Inspirational Sayings

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
~Author : Jacques Deval Nice Quotes

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Inspirational Sayings

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
~Author : James Grover Thurber Nice Quotes

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great Sayings

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
~Author : Chauncey Wright Meaningful Sayings

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
~Author : Salvador Dali Wise Quotes

O, I am slain!
~Author : William Shakespeare Hamlet Polonius says this as Hamlet kills him behind the curtain Motivational Sayings

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Famous Quotes

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Inspirational Sayings

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.
~Author : James A Pike Famous Quotes

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
~Author : Carl Schurz Inspirational Sayings

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
~Author : Robert Benchley Nice Quotes

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~Author : Margaret Thatcher Great Sayings

Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita.
(The way to the stars is open.)
~Author : Sergei Koroljov Meaningful Sayings

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.
~Author : Michio Kushi Wise Quotes

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.
~Author : John C Maxwell Motivational Sayings

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
~Author : Hazlitt Famous Quotes

Sunday, September 14, 2008

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.
~Author : Voltaire Sayings

He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.
~Author : Biblical Proverb Quotes

What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors
~Author : Keniche Ohnae Sayings

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
~Author : H L Mencken Quotes

You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.
~Author : Michelangelo Poem Fragment Sayings

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
~Author : Wilfrid Sheed Quotes
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Sayings

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
~Author : Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
~Author : Alice Walker Sayings

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
~Author : Unknown Quotes

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
~Author : Charles Caleb Colton Sayings

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.
~Author : J D Salinger Quotes

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
~Author : Joseph Addison Sayings

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
~Author : Lee Iacocca Quotes

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Sayings

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
~Author : HT Leslie Quotes

I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Tempest Act 4 Scene 1 Sayings

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
~Author : Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
~Author : Homer The Iliad Sayings

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
~Author : Terry Hands Quotes

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
~Author : J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Sayings

Monday, September 1, 2008

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
~Author : Johnny Carson Quotes

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
~Author : Jerry Seinfeld Sayings

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
~Author : Sheila Graham Quotes

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
~Author : Lloyd Jones Sayings

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
~Author : Homer The Odyssey Quotes

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One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.
~Author : Helen Kromer Sayings

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
~Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton Sayings

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
~Author : Ovid Quotes

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
~Author : JeanPaul Sartre Sayings

Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Quotes

Leading the Jewish people is not easy-we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp-wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
~Author : Shimon Peres Sayings

Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....
~Author : Leo C Rosten Quotes

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Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
~Author : Juan Ramon Jiminez Sayings

Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
~Author : Unknown Quotes

Be gentle with the young.
~Author : Juvenal Sayings

Take Nothing but Pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
~Author : Motto of the Baltimore Grotto caving society Quotes

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
~Author : John F Kennedy Sayings

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
~Author : Sir Francis Bacon Of Empire Quotes

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