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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

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
~Author : George Eliot Motivational Sayings

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.
~Author : Benjamin H Brewster Famous Quotes

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
~Author : Demosthenes Inspirational Sayings

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
~Author : Carl Sagan Nice Quotes

Moderation in all things.
~Author : Terence Andria Great Sayings

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
~Author : Joe Martin Meaningful Sayings

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
~Author : Nikolaus Lenus Wise Quotes

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
~Author : Homer Motivational Sayings

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Famous Quotes

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
~Author : Og Mandino Inspirational Sayings

Red is grey and yellow white
We decide which is right
and which is an illusion.
~Author : Moody Blues Tuesday Afternoon Nice Quotes

Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.
~Author : Helen Rowland Great Sayings

This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you? People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren?t telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
~Author : Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club Meaningful Sayings

We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.
~Author : Albert Einstein Wise Quotes

Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.
~Author : Napoleon Motivational Sayings

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.
~Author : Author Unknown Famous Quotes

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Inspirational Sayings

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Nice Quotes

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
~Author : Aeschylus Great Sayings

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