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Nice Great Sayings

January 6, 2010 at 12:52 pm

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
~Author : Henry Louis Mencken Famous Quotes

The road to a friend’s house is never long.
~Author : Danish proverb Inspirational Sayings

For ’tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard…
~Author : William Shakespeare Nice Quotes

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
~Author : Maya Angelou Great Sayings

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
~Author : Martha Graham Meaningful Sayings

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
~Author : James Grover Thurber Popular Sayings

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
~Author : Antisthenes Wise Quotes

The character of a man is known from his conversations.
~Author : Menander Witty Sayings

Do one thing every day that scares you.
~Author : Eleanor Roosevelt Motivational Sayings

Spring is a true reconstructionist.
~Author : Henry Timrod Famous Quotes

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
~Author : George E Woodberry Inspirational Sayings

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
~Author : Napolean Hill 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

memorable sayings and meaningful quotes

September 12, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Famous Quotes

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
~Author : George Gissing Inspirational Sayings

Work is victory.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~Author : Walter Gagehot Great Sayings

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
~Author : Albert Einstein Meaningful Sayings

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
~Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero Wise Quotes

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
~Author : Henry Kissinger Motivational Sayings

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
~Author : Jimmy Demaret Famous Quotes

Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain….The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God — expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.
~Author : John Calvin Inspirational Sayings

Inspirational and Meaningful Sayings for a Better Life

September 5, 2009 at 7:54 am

As the old proverb says “Like readily consorts with like.”
~Author : Cicero Famous Quotes

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Inspirational Sayings

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London.
~Author : Edward Morgan Forster Nice Quotes

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Memory 1996 Great Sayings

The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
~Author : David McIntosh Meaningful Sayings

It is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere,
A lily of a day
is fairer in May
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant of flower and light,
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be.
~Author : Benjamin Johnson Wise Quotes

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
~Author : Bruce Barton Motivational Sayings

Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
~Author : Toni Morrison Famous Quotes

Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.
~Author : Henry James Inspirational Sayings

Nice Quotes, Nicest Quotes, Nicer Quotes

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

Attitude Quotes, Sayings about Positive Attitudes

August 20, 2009 at 9:55 am

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson Famous Quotes

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing
~Author : Phocion Inspirational Sayings

Nobody ever died of laughter.
~Author : Max Beerbohm Nice Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~Author : Voltaire Great Sayings

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
~Author : Adele Brookman Meaningful Sayings

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Wise Quotes

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
~Author : Vidal Sassoon Motivational Sayings

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Famous Quotes

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
~Author : George Will Inspirational Sayings

Poems, Quotes, Sayings for All Occasions

August 17, 2009 at 10:40 am

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
~Author : Joseph Addison Famous Quotes

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.
~Author : Thomas S Eliot Four Quartets Inspirational Sayings

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
~Author : Jerry Frankhauser Great Sayings

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
~Author : Mary Pickford Meaningful Sayings

The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.
~Author : Author Unknown Wise Quotes

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
~Author : Mother Teresa in her Nobel lecture Motivational Sayings

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
~Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Famous Quotes

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
~Author : Clifton Fadiman Inspirational Sayings

David Eddings King of the Murgos Famous Quotes

August 11, 2009 at 10:24 am

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
~Author : David Eddings King of the Murgos Famous Quotes

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that’s working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he’d do it. In government, you don’t have to worry about that.
~Author : George Pratt Shultz Inspirational Sayings

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
~Author : Baruch Spinoza The Ethics Nice Quotes

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
~Author : John Stuart Mill Great Sayings

Common sense is not so common.
~Author : Voltaire Meaningful Sayings

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Wise Quotes

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America’s classrooms in the first place.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Motivational Sayings

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~Author : Confucius Famous Quotes

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
~Author : Rabindranath Tagore 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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