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November 18, 2009 at 6:53 am

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
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The longer you wait, the better the date.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
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Examine what is said, not who speaks.
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
Events are less important than our response to them.
First things first! But not necessarily in that order.
Funny thing about humility. Just when you think you’ve got it, you’ve lost it.
Long Love Quotations And Cute Daily Saying
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight.
Anyone can make a mountain out of a molehill by throwing on more dirt.
Best friends don’t ask you: Is something wrong?\”Best friends ask you: \”Whats wrong?\”.”
Butcher’s window: Let me meat your needs.
He who laughs last thinks slowest!
If you can’t be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
It is always the ones who talk loudest who do the least.
Jesus did not come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible.
Love is the only fire hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature’s will.
Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.
One of the most important things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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Franklin P Jones Famous Quotes

October 30, 2009 at 7:40 am

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
~Author : Franklin P Jones Famous Quotes

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
~Author : Scott Adams Inspirational Sayings

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
~Author : Epicurus Nice Quotes

Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it — badly.
~Author : Henry Spencer Great Sayings

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.
~Author : Rodney Dangerfield Meaningful Sayings

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.
~Author : Juvenal Satires Popular Sayings

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Wise Quotes

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation.
~Author : Gail Sheehy Witty Sayings

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
~Author : Prince Otto Motivational Sayings

Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
~Author : Voltaire Famous Quotes

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.
~Author : Jean Paul Richter Inspirational Sayings

You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
~Author : Tove Jansson Nice Quotes

Sydney Harris Famous Quotes

October 19, 2009 at 5:24 pm

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood — and an almost total inability to practice it.
~Author : Sydney Harris Famous Quotes

Shell to DOS… Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS…
~Author : Anon Inspirational Sayings

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Walden Nice Quotes

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
~Author : Juan Ramon Jiminez Great Sayings

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
~Author : Edgar Watson Howe Meaningful Sayings

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Popular Sayings

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
~Author : Irish Blessing Wise Quotes

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.
~Author : Leo Burnett Witty Sayings

The only way round is through.
~Author : Robert Frost Motivational Sayings

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
~Author : John Davidson Rockefeller Sr Famous Quotes

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
~Author : Anna Quindlen Inspirational Sayings

I didn’t really say everything I said.
~Author : Yogi Berra Nice Quotes

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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

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August 25, 2009 at 11:16 am

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
~Author : Ed Howe Famous Quotes

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
~Author : Jennie Jerome Churchill Inspirational Sayings

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment–this day–is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day–each moment of this day–a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.
~Author : Dan Custer Nice Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
~Author : Muhammad Ali Great Sayings

There is no sin greater than ignorance.
~Author : Rudyard Kipling Meaningful Sayings

When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.
~Author : George C Marshall Wise Quotes

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Motivational Sayings

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. … With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
~Author : Edward R Murrow Famous Quotes

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
~Author : Leo Durocher Inspirational Sayings

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August 19, 2009 at 9:05 am

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
~Author : Max Eastman Famous Quotes

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
~Author : H Jackson Brown Jr Inspirational Sayings

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Nice Quotes

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
~Author : Louisa May Alcott Great Sayings

My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.
~Author : Edna St Vincent Millay A Few Figs from Thistles 1920 Meaningful Sayings

I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
~Author : Debi Thomas Wise Quotes

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
~Author : Martin Luther Motivational Sayings

Language is the dress of thought.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Famous Quotes

Hatred is the anger of the weak.
~Author : Alphonse Daudet Inspirational Sayings

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August 13, 2009 at 9:25 am

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
~Author : Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan Famous Quotes

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
~Author : Elizabeth Bowen Inspirational Sayings

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
~Author : Joseph Addison Nice Quotes

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
~Author : Joan Klempner Great Sayings

Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Meaningful Sayings

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
~Author : Albert Einstein Wise Quotes

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
~Author : Joan Rivers Famous Quotes

I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there.
~Author : John Flansburgh Inspirational Sayings

Sir John Denham Famous Quotes

August 12, 2009 at 8:56 am

Tis the most certain sign, the world’s accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst.
~Author : Sir John Denham Famous Quotes

If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow any more.
~Author : Shirley Mount Hufstedler Inspirational Sayings

All a man can betray is his conscience.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Nice Quotes

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
~Author : Kim Hubbard Great Sayings

What we call ‘Progress’ is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Meaningful Sayings

One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
~Author : J R R Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 1954 chapter 2 Wise Quotes

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
~Author : Albert Einstein The World as I See It Motivational Sayings

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
~Author : R C Samsel Famous Quotes

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
~Author : Cyril Connolly Inspirational Sayings

Random Wise Quotes

August 11, 2009 at 10:20 am

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
~Author : Joseph Addison Cato Famous Quotes

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
~Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton Inspirational Sayings

Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
~Author : John Stuart Mill On Liberty Nice Quotes

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
~Author : Thomas Babington Great Sayings

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Meaningful Sayings

There comes a time in every man’s life and I’ve had many of them.
~Author : Casey Stengel Wise Quotes

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
~Author : Leo Tolstoy Motivational Sayings

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
~Author : Saint Bernard Epistle Famous Quotes

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Sayings

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