sayings on Nature by John Burroughs

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
~sayings on Nature by John Burroughs

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
~quotations on Religion by H.L. Mencken

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at ChristmastimeMature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them
~wedding love quote by P.J. O’Rourke

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
~saying about wedding by Mark Twain

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life
~quote about Business by Samuel Johnson

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
~quotes on College by Russell Green

If I can’t have too many truffles I’ll do without.
~sayings on Dieting by Colette

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
~quotations on Mothers by John Lancaster Spalding

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths
~wedding love quote by Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul
~saying about wedding by Lisa T. Shepherd

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
~quote about Dogs by Bern Williams

People only see what they are prepared to see.
~quotes on Living by Emerson

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
~sayings on Funny Saying by Mark Twain

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
~quotations on Changes by Kurt Lewin

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
~wedding love quote by Helen Rowland

A life is too precious to waste to spend on anything but the best.
~saying about wedding by

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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
~Author : La Rochefoucauld Famous Quotes

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Sayings

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics…One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm…Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law…Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.
~Author : Isaac Asimov Nice Quotes

There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.
~Author : Stephen Mansfield Great Sayings

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Meaningful Sayings

Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.
~Author : Unknown Wise Quotes

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil.
~Author : I Ching Famous Quotes

Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
~Author : Flannery O’Connor Inspirational Sayings

What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
~Author : Wendell Phillips Nice Quotes

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
~Author : Manly P Hall Great Sayings

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Meaningful Sayings

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~Author : Mother Theresa Wise Quotes

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
~Author : George Santayana Life of Reason 1905 vol 4 ch 4 Motivational Sayings

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
~Author : Lenny Bruce Famous Quotes

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Sayings

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
~Author : Caesar Augustus from Plutarch Apothegms Nice Quotes

I think my favorite monster movie is ‘Gone With the Wind’, because it has that ear monster and that big-dress monster.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Great Sayings

Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
~Author : Francois de La Rochefoucauld Meaningful Sayings

His only fault is that he has no fault.
~Author : Pliny the Younger Letters Wise Quotes

With true friends…even water drunk together is sweet enough.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Motivational Sayings

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~Author : Elisabeth KueblerRoss Famous Quotes

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
~Author : Henry Kissinger Inspirational Sayings

If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
~Author : Robert Southey Nice Quotes

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Great Sayings

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
~Author : Auguste Rodin Meaningful Sayings

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
~Author : Carl Jung Wise Quotes

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
~Author : Orson Welles Motivational Sayings

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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~Author : William Saroyan Famous Quotes

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau in Walden Economy Inspirational Sayings

Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop you bucket where you are.
~Author : Sam Walter Foss Back Country Poems 1892 Nice Quotes

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
~Author : George Horace Lorimer Great Sayings

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Meaningful Sayings

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.
~Author : Charles Dickens Wise Quotes

They think to little who talk to much.
~Author : John Dryden Motivational Sayings

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let ’em go, because, man, they’re gone.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.
~Author : Author Unknown Inspirational Sayings

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
~Author : Horace Nice Quotes

Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
~Author : Rabbi David Wolpe Great Sayings

Get what you can and keep what you have that’s the way to get rich.
~Author : Scottish Proverb Meaningful Sayings

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
~Author : Elizabeth II Wise Quotes

Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and… walk in and see and uh… if you don’t have my money for me, I’ll… crack your f***in’ head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I’m comin’ out of jail, hopefully, you’ll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I’ll split your f***in’ head open again. ‘Cause I’m f***in’ stupid. I don’t give a f*** about jail. That’s my business. That’s what I do.
~Author : Casino Motivational Sayings

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
~Author : Reginald Blyth Famous Quotes

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Sayings

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
~Author : Tennessee Williams Nice Quotes

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
~Author : Harry S Truman Great Sayings

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~Author : e e cummings Meaningful Sayings

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
~Author : Charles Franklin Kettering Wise Quotes

Life is like a bicycle you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
~Author : Claude Pepper Motivational Sayings

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
~Author : Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Famous Quotes

Fame is proof that people are gullible.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Sayings

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Nice Quotes

I repeat…that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Great Sayings

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
~Author : Matthew Green c 1737 Meaningful Sayings

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
~Author : Charles de Montesquieu Wise Quotes

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
~Author : William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Act 1 scene 2 Motivational Sayings

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