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Wise Good Sayings

January 6, 2010 at 12:52 pm

He grounds the warship he walks on.
~Author : John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983 Famous Quotes

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
~Author : John Bay Inspirational Sayings

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
~Author : Nietzsche Nice Quotes

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.
~Author : Anon Great Sayings

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

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a “but”.
~Author : Henry Ward Beecher Popular Sayings

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
~Author : Albert Einstein Wise Quotes

Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.
~Author : Welsh Proverb Witty Sayings

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Motivational Sayings

…it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us
~Author : Charles Dickens Famous Quotes

This above all to thine own self be true.
~Author : William Shakespeare Inspirational Sayings

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
~Author : John C Maxwell Nice Quotes

People Quotations And Inspirational One Liner

October 25, 2009 at 7:24 am

When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad Love Quotation
It is more blessed to give than to receive Cool Phrase
When you feel bad about yourself you reverse your magnet and repel people Romantic Saying
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children
It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children
I’m old enough to know better, but still too young to care
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian
Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects
Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace
I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge
Let’s dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year
For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city
All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.] God loveth the clean
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run
Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way
If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter..
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment Love Phrase

Short Quotes And Nice Saying

October 12, 2009 at 6:56 pm

Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired- it can only be earned Favorite Phrase
Silence is the only thing that can’t be misquoted! Silence is wise if we are foolish, but foolish if we are wise Quotable Saying
Some people take too much of vitamin I Favorite Quote
The Lord loves a cheerful giver. He also accepts from a grouch
The mind can only stand what the butt can endure
To be or not to be… I think its a trick question
Two things are sure in life: There is a God, and you are not him
When asking a question of someone your not sure of, only ask if you know half the answer
A kid’s idea of a balanced diet is a hamburger in each hand
All mothers are working mothers
A real patriot is someone who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works
Attend Church weekly NOT weakly
A wise person escapes temptation and leaves no forwarding address
Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily
Don’t say if I could, I would.Say instead If I can, I will
Hell has no fire escapes

If danger’s a step away, safety’s step away
If things get better with age, I’m approaching magnificent! If voting could really change things, it would be illegal Quotable OneLiner

amazing inspiring sayings

September 23, 2009 at 8:58 am

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
~Author : Robert J Shiller Irrational Exuberance Famous Quotes

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
~Author : Tyron Edwards Inspirational Sayings

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Nice Quotes

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
~Author : Margaret Fuller Great Sayings

Men willingly believe what they wish.
~Author : Julius Caesar Meaningful Sayings

Art and science have their meeting point in method.
~Author : Edward BulwerLytton Wise Quotes

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson December 13 1963 Motivational Sayings

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
~Author : SbastienRoch Nicolas de Chamfort Famous Quotes

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
~Author : Jamaican Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Ben Sweetland Meaningful Sayings

September 5, 2009 at 7:53 am

Success is a journey, not a destination.
~Author : Ben Sweetland Meaningful Sayings
By the end, everybody had a label — pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary … If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
~Author : Jerry Rubin Famous Quotes

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
~Author : George Santayana Inspirational Sayings

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
~Author : Leo Tolstoy Nice Quotes

You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences.
~Author : Pia Melody Great Sayings

…happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it…
~Author : Aristotle Wise Quotes

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
~Author : Albert Camus Motivational Sayings

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
~Author : Ernest Hello Famous Quotes

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.
~Author : Arthur Schopenhauer Inspirational Sayings

wise words of wisdom

August 26, 2009 at 4:26 pm

There is always something for which to be thankful.
~Author : Charles Dickens Famous Quotes

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
~Author : John Burroughs Inspirational Sayings

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government…
~Author : Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence Nice Quotes

Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature’s changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
~Author : H Hahn Blavatsky Great Sayings

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
~Author : Norman R Augustine Meaningful Sayings

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
~Author : Cesare Lombroso Wise Quotes

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Motivational Sayings

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
~Author : Ronald Firbank Famous Quotes

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
~Author : Richard Feynman Inspirational Sayings

Random Wise Sayings

August 21, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
~Author : A Sachs Famous Quotes

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Inspirational Sayings

The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one;
Yet the life of a whole life dies
When love is done.
~Author : Francis William Bourdillon Nice Quotes

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.
~Author : Anonymous Great Sayings

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

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Wise Quotes

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.
~Author : Ellen DeGeneres Motivational Sayings

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
~Author : Socrates Famous Quotes

If there is no gardener there is no garden.
~Author : Stephen R Covey First things First Inspirational Sayings

Quentin Crisp Famous Quotes

August 17, 2009 at 10:41 am

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
~Author : Quentin Crisp Famous Quotes

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin
~Author : Horace Inspirational Sayings

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
~Author : Adolf Hitler Mien Kampf Great Sayings

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away – leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
~Author : Kenneth Patchen Meaningful Sayings

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do.
~Author : Dale Carnegie Wise Quotes

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Motivational Sayings

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks’ reason for living.
~Author : Toni Cade Bambara Famous Quotes

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
~Author : Walter Bagehot Inspirational Sayings

Naughty or Nice Quotes, Sayings and Quotations

August 17, 2009 at 10:39 am

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
~Author : William Wordsworth Inspirational Sayings

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
~Author : Annie Dillard Nice Quotes

An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis?
Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?
~Author : Count Oxenstierna letter to his son 1648 Great Sayings

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
~Author : Nick Faldo Meaningful Sayings

An artist does not fake reality–he *stylizes* it.
~Author : Ayn Rand From the article Art and Sense of Life in The Romantic Manifesto Wise Quotes

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Motivational Sayings

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.
~Author : Jesse Lair Famous Quotes

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes one’s own.
~Author : Elizabeth Elton Smith Inspirational Sayings

Random Nice Quotes

August 11, 2009 at 10:21 am

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Famous Quotes

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
~Author : Edward Morgan Forster Inspirational Sayings

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
~Author : Saul Bellow Nice Quotes

When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away.”

Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
~Author : AE Houseman Great Sayings

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
~Author : Jessamyn West Meaningful Sayings

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
~Author : Andrew A Rooney Wise Quotes

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Motivational Sayings

Adults are just children who earn money.
~Author : Kenneth Branaugh Famous Quotes

Einstein said God doesn’t play dice with the universe, but I don’t know–maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples’ back yards.
~Author : Dennis Koenig Inspirational Sayings

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