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  • August 22, 2009 5:34 pm

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
~Author : Dorothy Rothschild Parker Famous Quotes

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.
~Author : Truman Capote Inspirational Sayings

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
~Author : Thomas H Huxley Nice Quotes

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Great Sayings

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken on its own merits.
~Author : Dan Barker Losing Faith in Faith 1992 Meaningful Sayings

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.
~Author : Duchess de Abrantes Wise Quotes

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Motivational Sayings

Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
~Author : Leone Levi Famous Quotes

Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Tempest Act 5 scene 1 Inspirational Sayings

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  • August 22, 2009 5:33 pm

Every nation ridicules other nations — and all are right.
~Author : Arthur Schopenhauer Famous Quotes

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Inspirational 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 The Republic Nice Quotes

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
~Author : Mel Brooks Great Sayings

A book holds a house of gold.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)
~Author : William Occam Wise Quotes

It’s better to be known by six people for something you’re proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you’re not.
~Author : Albert Brooks Motivational Sayings

I bet when they weren’t fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.
~Author : Max Frisch Inspirational Sayings

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  • August 22, 2009 5:33 pm

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
~Author : Francis Bacon Famous Quotes

The greater love is a mother’s then comes a dog’s then a sweetheart’s.
~Author : Polish Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
~Author : Thich Nhat Hanh Nice Quotes

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
~Author : Kenich Ohmae Great Sayings

…The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
~Author : Robert Hutchins Meaningful Sayings

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
~Author : William Lloyd Garrison Wise Quotes

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.
~Author : Walt Whitman Famous Quotes

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
~Author : Bette Midler Inspirational Sayings

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