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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You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
~Author : Socrates Famous Quotes

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
~Author : Ethel Barrymore Inspirational Sayings

After you’ve been in a place for a while, everything starts to look… I won’t say better, there’s no need to go to extremes…but your everyday life does start to become…familiar.
~Author : David Assael Nice Quotes

There is no way to peace peace is the way.
~Author : A J Muste Great Sayings

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
~Author : Groucho Marx Meaningful Sayings

Never let your inferiors do you a favor – it will be extremely costly.
~Author : HL Mencken Wise Quotes

Anger is only one letter short of danger.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
~Author : Henry James Famous Quotes

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
~Author : John MacNaughton Inspirational Sayings

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Nice Quotes

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
~Author : Pablo Picasso Great Sayings

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations’s professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
~Author : Oscar W Firkins Meaningful Sayings

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
~Author : Pliny the Elder Wise Quotes

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
~Author : Author Unknown Motivational Sayings

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Famous Quotes

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~Author : Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Inspirational Sayings

A liar should have a good memory.
~Author : Quintilian De Institutione Oratoria Nice Quotes

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
~Author : Mark Twain Following the Equator 1897 Great Sayings

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Meaningful Sayings

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
~Author : Gloria Swanson Wise Quotes

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
~Author : Friedrich Von Schlegel Motivational Sayings

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
~Author : Charles Lamb Famous Quotes

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~Author : Dalai Lama Inspirational Sayings

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.
~Author : Maurice Chapelain Nice Quotes

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
~Author : Fran Lebowitz Great Sayings

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
~Author : Samuel Goldwyn Meaningful Sayings

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
~Author : Michael Caine Wise Quotes

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
~Author : Mark Twain Motivational Sayings

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