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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

Long Quotes And Famous Phrase

October 25, 2009 at 7:25 am

Let them learn first to show pity at home Meaningful OneLiners
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble Wise Quotation
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others Nice Phrases
A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.] Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age
It is a wise father that knows his own child
For many are called, but few are chosen
Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part
The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person
There is never any peace for those who resist God
I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans
Turn your wounds into wisdom
And the Baron’s retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday
Circumstances beyond my individual control
In the busy haunts of men
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man
Passion: A feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you’ve never felt before
Only boring people get bored
Don’t ask what your community can do for you. Ask what you can do for your community
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart Nice Quotations

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

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

Random Great sayings

August 21, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
~Author : Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Famous Quotes

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
~Author : Sally Koch Inspirational Sayings

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
~Author : Maxim Gorky Nice Quotes

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
~Author : Socrates Great Sayings

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
~Author : Robert South Meaningful Sayings

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Wise Quotes

I am a Marxist–of the Groucho tendency.
~Author : Anonymous French slogan Motivational Sayings

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
~Author : Marion Wink Famous Quotes

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
~Author : Sir Arnold Bax 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

Random Quotes | A quote for every occasion

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

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

famous inspirational quotes sayings

August 13, 2009 at 9:27 am

Our children change us?whether they live or not.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar 1991 Famous Quotes

It’s important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don’t on the whole… The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.
~Author : Richard Ingrams Inspirational Sayings

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.
~Author : Paul Fussell Nice Quotes

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
~Author : Albert Einstein Great Sayings

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Meaningful Sayings

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Wise Quotes

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness — it means more to me than my life itself.
~Author : Marquis de Sade Motivational Sayings

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~Author : Leonardo DaVinci Notebooks c 1500 Famous Quotes

The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
~Author : L Thomas Holdcroft Inspirational Sayings

Random Famous Quotes

August 11, 2009 at 10:20 am

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
~Author : Dan Quayle 10290 reported in Esquire 892 Famous Quotes

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inspirational Sayings

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
~Author : William Ellery Channing Nice Quotes

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Great Sayings

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
~Author : Sy Parrish One Hour Photo Meaningful Sayings

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
~Author : Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Wise Quotes

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
~Author : Assyrian Proverb Motivational Sayings

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.
~Author : Plato Famous Quotes

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
~Author : S Hayakawa Inspirational Sayings

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