Random Werid Sayings

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
~Author : Richard Burton Famous Quotes

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.
~Author : Danny Kaye Inspirational Sayings

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
~Author : Anais Nin Nice Quotes

The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
~Author : George Chapman Great Sayings

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science.
~Author : Albert Einstein Meaningful Sayings

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Wise Quotes

Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves ‘self made’.
~Author : B J Gupta Motivational Sayings

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.
~Author : Unknown Famous Quotes

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
~Author : Jim Bishop Inspirational Sayings

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what is the matter-he’s got to just know.
~Author : Will Rogers Nice Quotes

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.
~Author : Julia Roberts on Oprah 111803 Great Sayings

Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Meaningful Sayings

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.
~Author : Sidney Madwed Wise Quotes

When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Motivational Sayings

I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
~Author : Pablo Picasso Inspirational Sayings

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Nice Quotes

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
~Author : James Baldwin Great Sayings

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Meaningful Sayings

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
~Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein Wise Quotes

The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
~Author : Michael Friedman Motivational Sayings

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
~Author : Dave Barry Famous Quotes

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
~Author : Roger Zelazny Inspirational Sayings

There are two kinds of worries — those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
~Author : Duke Ellington Nice Quotes

He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Great Sayings

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win — if you don’t you won’t.
~Author : Bruce Jenner Meaningful Sayings

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
~Author : Hermann Hesse Wise Quotes

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
~Author : Quentin Crisp Motivational Sayings

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Random Sayings: Funny Random Quotes and Sayings

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
~Author : Malcolm S Forbes Famous Quotes

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Inspirational Sayings

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
~Author : Sophocles Nice Quotes

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~Author : HL Mencken Great Sayings

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
~Author : J R R Tolkien The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring Wise Quotes

Progress always involves risk you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first base.
~Author : Frederick Wilcox Motivational Sayings

Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~Author : Charles V Famous Quotes

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
~Author : Al Bernstein Inspirational Sayings

A book … unlike a television program, moving picture or any other ‘modern means of communication’ … can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
~Author : Joseph Wood Krutch Nice Quotes

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find – nothing.
~Author : Aesop The Goose with the Golden Eggs Great Sayings

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
~Author : Henry P Fairchild Meaningful Sayings

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present– which seldom happens to us.
~Author : La Bruyere Wise Quotes

Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
~Author : Frank Zappa Liner notes from the album Freak Out 1965 Motivational Sayings

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Famous Quotes

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
~Author : HL Mencken Inspirational Sayings

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
~Author : Walt Kelly Nice Quotes

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
~Author : Gerald R Ford Great Sayings

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
~Author : Albert Einstein Meaningful Sayings

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
~Author : George F Burns Wise Quotes

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.
~Author : Alexander Senturia Motivational Sayings

Read not to contradict and confute?nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
~Author : Sir Francis Bacon O Magazine April 2003 Famous Quotes

Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end
~Author : Tom Stoppard Inspirational Sayings

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
~Author : G E Lessing Nice Quotes

There is no substitute for hard work.
~Author : Thomas Alva Edison Great Sayings

‘At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,’ said the gentleman, taking up a pen, ‘it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. … We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.’
~Author : Charles Dickens Meaningful Sayings

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
~Author : Annie Dillard Wise Quotes

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Motivational Sayings

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Random Thoughts, Sayings

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.
~Author : Bhagavad Gita Famous Quotes

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
~Author : Athol Inspirational Sayings

Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT’S bad for you
~Author : Tommy Smothers Nice Quotes

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Great Sayings

Realists don’t fulfill their ambitions. There must be a dreamer in all of us.
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
~Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Wise Quotes

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
~Author : Beranrd Levin Motivational Sayings

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
~Author : Otto Kleppner Famous Quotes

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
~Author : Robert Frost Inspirational Sayings

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
~Author : Donald Creighton Nice Quotes

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
~Author : Russell Hoban Great Sayings

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson letter to Samuel Kercheval July 12 1816 Meaningful Sayings

Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. – Phoenissae
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Wise Quotes

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
~Author : Ecclesiasticus Aprocrypha Ec 4112 Motivational Sayings

A diplomat… is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
~Author : Caskie Stinnett Out of the Red 1960 Famous Quotes

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
~Author : Thomas Fuller Inspirational Sayings

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Nice Quotes

Last night’s homer was Willie Stargell’s 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.
~Author : Jerry Coleman Great Sayings

Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
~Author : George Ade Meaningful Sayings

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
~Author : Henry Wallace Wise Quotes

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
~Author : Alfred A Montapert Motivational Sayings

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
~Author : Immanuel Kant Critique of Practical Reason Inspirational Sayings

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
~Author : Epicurus Nice Quotes

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
~Author : Henry Miller Great Sayings

Surfing on the Internet is like sex everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it’s a lot more.
~Author : Tom Fasulo Meaningful Sayings

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
~Author : Victor Hugo Wise Quotes

You may share the labours of the great, but you may not share the spoil.
~Author : Aesop Motivational Sayings

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Frank Herbert Famous Quotes

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. …The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
~Author : Frank Herbert Famous Quotes

From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Tempest Act 1 scene 2 Inspirational Sayings

He who does not hope to win has already lost.
~Author : Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Nice Quotes

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
~Author : Nicholai Velimirovic Great Sayings

Always love your enemies–nothing annoys them so much.
~Author : Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Meaningful Sayings

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Wise Quotes

It’s not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
~Author : Jeff Melvoin Motivational Sayings

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

Do not speak ill of the dead.
~Author : The Seven Sages Bias Chilon Cleobulus Periander PittacusSolon Thales c 650 c 550 BC From Diogenes Laertius Lives Inspirational Sayings

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
~Author : Oswald Spengler Nice Quotes

Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands
~Author : Patrick Henry Great Sayings

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.
~Author : Mark Twain Meaningful Sayings

The term “learning disability” has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around.
~Author : U S Government Study On The Labeling Of Children Wise Quotes

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
~Author : e e cummings Motivational Sayings

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
~Author : Og Mandino Famous Quotes

There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
~Author : Judith Martin Inspirational Sayings

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.
~Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton Nice Quotes

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
~Author : Phyllis Great Sayings

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Meaningful Sayings

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Wise Quotes

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
~Author : Sri da Avabhas Motivational Sayings

Shouldn’t someone tag Mr Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Famous Quotes

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
~Author : David BenGurion Inspirational Sayings

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots — suspicion.
~Author : Demosthenes Nice Quotes

Ring Announcer What’s your name kid Peter The Human Spider. Ring Announcer That’s it The Human Spider That’s the best you’ve got Peter Yeah. Ring Announcer Well that sucks.
~Author : SpiderMan Great Sayings

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
~Author : Tom Robbins Meaningful Sayings

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There’s a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
~Author : Frank Zappa Wise Quotes

Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return.
~Author : W H Auden Motivational Sayings

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Random Wise Sayings

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.
~Author : Lori Hard Famous Quotes

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
~Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Inspirational Sayings

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
~Author : Socrates Nice Quotes

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!
~Author : Henry Ford Great Sayings

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Meaningful Sayings

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
~Author : Adlai E Stevenson Jr quoted by Human Behavior May 1978 Wise Quotes

Be gentle with the young.
~Author : Juvenal Motivational Sayings

I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
~Author : Clarence Thomas Famous Quotes

Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
~Author : Fred Hoyle Inspirational Sayings

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouthTame the dragon and the gift is yours.
~Author : Noela Evans Nice Quotes

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
~Author : Madame Curie Great Sayings

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
~Author : Hesketh Pearson Meaningful Sayings

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
~Author : Aesop Wise Quotes

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
~Author : Author Unknown Motivational Sayings

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
~Author : Ben Shahn Famous Quotes

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
~Author : Jules Feiffer Inspirational Sayings

All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Meditations Book Seven Nice Quotes

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
~Author : Confucius Great Sayings

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
~Author : George Eliot Meaningful Sayings

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
~Author : Hellen Keller Wise Quotes

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
~Author : Frederick Douglass Speech April 1886 Motivational Sayings

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
~Author : Mark Twain Famous Quotes

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Inspirational Sayings

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
~Author : William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1 scene 3 Nice Quotes

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.
~Author : Lewis Mumford Great Sayings

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
~Author : Robert Louis Stevenson Meaningful Sayings

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
~Author : Stella Adler Wise Quotes

We find comfort among those who agree with us–growth among those who don’t.
~Author : Frank A Clark Motivational Sayings

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Random Famous Quotes

Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.
~Author : Arthur McNallan Famous Quotes

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Inspirational Sayings

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Nice Quotes

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
~Author : Bette Davis The Lonely Life 1962 Great Sayings

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s believe in the dignity and important of the question.
~Author : Tennessee Williams Meaningful Sayings

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
~Author : William Shakespeare Wise Quotes

The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball.
~Author : Ralph Kiner Motivational Sayings

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Famous Quotes

Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can’t wait to finish your breakfast. You can’t wait to do your exercises. You can’t wait to put on your clothes. You can’t wait to get out — and you can’t wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
~Author : George Burns Inspirational Sayings

And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.
~Author : Terry Goodkind Stone of Tears Nice Quotes

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
~Author : Paul Gauguin Great Sayings

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy — and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
~Author : Robert Heinlein Meaningful Sayings

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
~Author : William Harvey Wise Quotes

The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
~Author : William Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

To be amused by what you read–that is the great spring of happy quotations.
~Author : C E Montague Famous Quotes

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
~Author : W S Gilbert Inspirational Sayings

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.
~Author : Dr Laura Schlessinger Nice Quotes

Et tu, Brute
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
~Author : David Gerrold Meaningful Sayings

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
~Author : Vincent Van Gogh Wise Quotes

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
~Author : James Thurber Motivational Sayings

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.
~Author : Pliny the Elder Famous Quotes

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Random Famous Sayings

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
~Author : Henry Miller Famous Quotes

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
~Author : Claude M Bristol Inspirational Sayings

Nothing is stronger than habit.
~Author : Ovid Ars Amatoria Nice Quotes

All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
~Author : Joni Mitchell songThe Last Time I Saw Richard Great Sayings

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
~Author : Matthew 2311 12 Bible Meaningful Sayings

George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It’s always the last days of summer and I’ve been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I’ll grant you I’ve had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they’re busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.
~Author : Blow Wise Quotes

A sensible man knows you can’t please everybody. A wise man knows you can’t please anybody.
~Author : Richard Needham Motivational Sayings

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
~Author : Charles Caleb Colton Famous Quotes

Familiarity breed contempt.
~Author : Aesop Inspirational Sayings

It is better to live rich than to die rich.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Nice Quotes

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Great Sayings

If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
~Author : Jimmy Buffett Meaningful Sayings

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Wise Quotes

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
~Author : Homer The Iliad Motivational Sayings

Woe be to him that reads but one book.
~Author : George Herbert Famous Quotes

Work ’em hard, play ’em hard, feed ’em up to the nines and send ’em to bed so tired that they are asleep before their heads are on the pillow.
~Author : Frank L Boyden Inspirational Sayings

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
~Author : Josh Billings Nice Quotes

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.
~Author : Stobaeus Great Sayings

What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.
~Author : Tony Kushner Meaningful Sayings

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
~Author : P T Forsyth Wise Quotes

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
~Author : E B White Some Remarks on Humor introduction Motivational Sayings

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
~Author : Julius Irving Famous Quotes

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat.
~Author : Proverbs Bible Inspirational Sayings

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
~Author : General Smedley Butler Nice Quotes

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
~Author : Sonjay Anand Great Sayings

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
~Author : Plato Meaningful Sayings

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is…Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.
~Author : Jeff Melvoin Wise Quotes

I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser.
~Author : Osbert Sitwell Motivational Sayings

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Famous Quotes

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
~Author : Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville Inspirational Sayings

Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the ‘Establishment’ as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
~Author : Henry Kissinger Nice Quotes

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
~Author : Ella Wheeler Wilcox Great Sayings

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
~Author : John A Rassias Meaningful Sayings

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Wise Quotes

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.
~Author : Gloria Allred Motivational Sayings

If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual’s firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman’s vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one’s right to representation.
~Author : Thomas Mincher Famous Quotes

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
~Author : General Omar Bradley Inspirational Sayings

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
~Author : Saint Thomas Aquinas Nice Quotes

The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind — but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
~Author : Konstantin E Tsiolkovsky Great Sayings

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
~Author : Ludwig van Beethoven Meaningful Sayings

There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.
~Author : Edwin Markham Wise Quotes

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~Author : Alfred Hitchcock Motivational Sayings

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
~Author : Kenneth Kaunda Famous Quotes

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation.
~Author : Eubie Inspirational Sayings

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick — not wounded — dead.
~Author : Woody Allen Nice Quotes

General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life … I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.
~Author : Sherwood Anderson Great Sayings

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
~Author : Marie Curie Meaningful Sayings

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard s Almanac 1758 Wise Quotes

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzche Motivational Sayings

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~Author : Rose Dorothy Franken Famous Quotes

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.
~Author : Earnest Hemingway Inspirational Sayings

Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
~Author : Charles Mingu Nice Quotes

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
~Author : George Sand Great Sayings

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
~Author : Plutarch Meaningful Sayings

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
~Author : Samuel Butler Wise Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
~Author : Socrates In Apology sct 21 by Plato Motivational Sayings

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What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
~Author : D H Lawrence Famous Quotes

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
~Author : Marcel Ayme Inspirational Sayings

What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question
~Author : Gertrude Stein Nice Quotes

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
~Author : John Peter Zenger Great Sayings

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
~Author : Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell Meaningful Sayings

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
~Author : Jean de La Fontaine Wise Quotes

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Famous Quotes

He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
~Author : Laotzu The Way of Laotzu Inspirational Sayings

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
~Author : Cicero Nice Quotes

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
~Author : Rabbi H Schachtel Great Sayings

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
~Author : John Stuart Mill Meaningful Sayings

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
~Author : John Adams Journal 1772 Wise Quotes

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Motivational Sayings

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
~Author : Sophocles Electra Famous Quotes

It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms… The war… was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics… In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the ‘Confederates’ was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the ‘Federals,’ on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind.
~Author : Alexander Hamilton Stephens Inspirational Sayings

We are always in our own company.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science section 166 Nice Quotes

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
~Author : Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus Great Sayings

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals 1824 Meaningful Sayings

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
~Author : William Shakespeare Wise Quotes

You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
~Author : Jean Kerr Motivational Sayings

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
~Author : Plato Famous Quotes

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.
~Author : Joan Rivers Inspirational Sayings

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
~Author : Arnold H Glasgow Nice Quotes

Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Great Sayings

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
~Author : James Reston New York Times June 12 1968 Meaningful Sayings

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Wise Quotes

I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
~Author : Charles De Secondat Motivational Sayings

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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.
~Author : Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Inspirational Sayings

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angles.
~Author : Neil Simon in Playboy Feb 1979 Nice Quotes

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
~Author : Adrienne Rich Great Sayings

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
~Author : EV Lucas Meaningful Sayings

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
~Author : Achilles Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 955 Wise Quotes

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
~Author : Alford Motivational Sayings

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
~Author : Chinese proverb Famous Quotes

Isn’t it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now
~Author : Arnot L Sheppard Jr Inspirational Sayings

People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
~Author : James F Hind Nice Quotes

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
~Author : Fred Rogers Great Sayings

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson Speech to Congress Apr 2 1917 Meaningful Sayings

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Wise Quotes

Life is full of obstacle illusions.
~Author : Grant Frazier Motivational Sayings

You know something that would really make me applaud A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out, riding on water skis How do they do that
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
~Author : Shirley Temple Inspirational Sayings

Men have become the tools of their tools
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Nice Quotes

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
~Author : Confucius The Confucian Analects Great Sayings

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.
~Author : Will Rogers Meaningful Sayings

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term — meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching — there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
~Author : Ansel Adams Wise Quotes

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
~Author : Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Motivational Sayings

I told you he had a cash register mind. Rings every time he opens his mouth.
~Author : Dennis O’Keefe Famous Quotes

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.
~Author : Native American Prayer Inspirational Sayings

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
~Author : Margaret Atwood Nice Quotes

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
~Author : Cicero On Friendship 44 BC Great Sayings

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
~Author : Clarence Darrow Meaningful Sayings

During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn’t have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.
~Author : Bill Maher Wise Quotes

Union gives strength.
~Author : Aesop Motivational Sayings

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