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When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Famous Quotes
Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings
Even pleasure itself is a toil.
~Author : Manilius Nice Quotes
Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.
~Author : Jerry Coleman Great Sayings
To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of ‘for’ and ‘against’ into one organic unity which is without distinctions.
~Author : Bruce Lee Meaningful Sayings
From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place – full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America – full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.
~Author : Louis Adamic Popular Sayings
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
~Author : Francis J Braceland O Magazine April 2003 Wise Quotes
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
~Author : Mark Twain Witty Sayings
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
~Author : Voltaire Motivational Sayings
The best love affairs are those we never had.
~Author : Norman Lindsay Famous Quotes
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Sayings
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
~Author : Charles Darwin Nice Quotes
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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
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It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.
~Author : A L Prusick Famous Quotes
There is no place in nature for extinction.
~Author : Licretius Inspirational Sayings
Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.
~Author : Alexander Hamilton P 217 A History of the American People by P Johnson Nice Quotes
This book fills a much-needed gap.
~Author : Moses Hadas Great Sayings
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Meaningful Sayings
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
~Author : Thomas H Huxley Wise Quotes
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
~Author : Edward M Kennedy Motivational Sayings
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we’ll find it.
~Author : Sam Levenson Famous Quotes
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
~Author : Robin Williams Inspirational Sayings
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Ovid Inspirational 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 Famous Quotes
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson letter to Samuel Kercheval July 12 1816 Nice Quotes
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
~Author : Karl Kraus Great Sayings
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
~Author : Alexander Pope Meaningful Sayings
N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Wise Quotes
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
~Author : Jean Giraudoux Motivational Sayings
Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they’re doing and saying in films right now just shouldn’t be allowed. There’s no dignity anymore and I think that’s very important.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Famous Quotes
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
~Author : Ovid Inspirational Sayings
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Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
~Author : George Eliot Middlemarch Book I ch1 Inspirational Sayings
The world is my lobster.
~Author : Henry J Tillman Nice Quotes
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
~Author : August Hare Great Sayings
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
~Author : Zeno from Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers Meaningful Sayings
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Wise Quotes
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man’s look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
~Author : William Hazlitt Motivational Sayings
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
~Author : Dorothy Parker Famous Quotes
A poem is no place for an idea.
~Author : Edgar Watson Howe Country Town Sayings 1911 Inspirational Sayings
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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
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Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
~Author : George Santayana Winds of Doctrine 1913 ch 4 Famous Quotes
The world must be made safe for democracy.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson April 2 1917 Inspirational Sayings
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
~Author : Zig Ziglar Nice Quotes
To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~Author : Buddha Great Sayings
When salvation is viewed as man’s program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God’s program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.
~Author : Michael Horton Meaningful Sayings
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
~Author : Bill Watterson Wise Quotes
No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time.
~Author : Arthur Schlesinger Jr Playboy Interview May 1966 Motivational Sayings
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.
~Author : Prince Philip of England Famous Quotes
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
~Author : Aristotle Inspirational Sayings
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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
David Eddings King of the Murgos Famous Quotes
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
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[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
~Author : Lord Byron Famous Quotes
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)
~Author : Gerald R Ford Inspirational Sayings
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
~Author : Katherine Patterson Jacob Have I Loved Nice Quotes
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
~Author : Author Unknown Great Sayings
Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Meaningful Sayings
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
~Author : Sri da Avabhas Wise Quotes
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 Motivational Sayings
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
~Author : M Scott Peck Famous Quotes
The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.
~Author : Jerry Coleman Inspirational Sayings
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