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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The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Nobody goes there anymore because it’s too crowded.
~Author : Lawrence Peter Berra Famous Quotes

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone?s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I?ll live as I believe.
~Author : Whitney Houston The Greatest Love Of All Inspirational Sayings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
~Author : Josh Billings Nice Quotes

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Great Sayings

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping … ‘Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.
~Author : Clive Staples Lewis Meaningful Sayings

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
~Author : Sir Arthur Eddington In J R Newman ed The World of Mathematics New York Simon and Schuster 1956 Wise Quotes

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
~Author : Hoshang N Akhtar Motivational Sayings

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
~Author : Aristotle Rhetoric Famous Quotes

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
~Author : General George Patton Inspirational Sayings

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
~Author : Sidney J Harris Nice Quotes

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Great Sayings

Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
~Author : Roger Zelazny Meaningful Sayings

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
~Author : J K Rowling Wise Quotes

Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
~Author : Isaac Newton Motivational Sayings

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
~Author : P J O’Rourke Famous Quotes

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Ecce Homo Foreword Inspirational Sayings

A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates? The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal.
~Author : Alphonse Desjardins The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s Nice Quotes

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
~Author : Susanne Langer Great Sayings

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
~Author : Leonardo da Vinci Meaningful Sayings

Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise Quotes

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity-or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity-by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
~Author : A N Wilson Motivational Sayings

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
~Author : Albert Einstein Letter 24 March 1954 Quoted in Albert Einstein The Human Side edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman Famous Quotes

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Inspirational Sayings

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
~Author : Demosthenes First Olynthiac Nice Quotes

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
~Author : Douglas Noel Adams Great Sayings

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known — that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
~Author : Norman O Brown Meaningful Sayings

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
~Author : Harper Lee Wise Quotes

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.
~Author : Christopher Morley Motivational Sayings

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