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November 25, 2009 at 3:49 pm

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

meaningful one liners

November 18, 2009 at 6:53 am

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
Wisdom Popular Sayings And Famous meaningful one liners
The longer you wait, the better the date.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Memorable Love Phrases And Coll Wisdom Quotation
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.
Quotable Inspirational Proverbs And Good Memorable Phrase

Wisdom Sayings And Inspirational Phrase

October 25, 2009 at 7:23 am

Charity looks at the need and not at the cause Cool Saying
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity Cool Quotes
Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves Nice Quotes
If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer’d and as God He taught
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life
Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo
All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.] God loveth the clean
You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures
The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best
They are happiest who have power to gather wisdom from a flower
Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right Romantic Saying

inspirational Wise sayings

August 30, 2009 at 4:52 pm

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

Famous Nice Sayings

August 27, 2009 at 12:08 pm

I?ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:?We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you…. But be assured that we?ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24 1967 Famous Quotes

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
~Author : Sir Arthur Eddington Inspirational Sayings

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
~Author : Henry Fielding Nice Quotes

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Great Sayings

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
~Author : C C Colton Meaningful Sayings

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
~Author : Mencius Wise Quotes

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
~Author : Henry Clay Motivational Sayings

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
~Author : Lazarus Long Famous Quotes

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
~Author : William Cobbett Inspirational Sayings

Nice Inspirational Sayings

August 27, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.
~Author : Yogi Berra Famous Quotes

I was going to buy a copy of “The Power of Positive Thinking”, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
~Author : Ronnie Shakes Inspirational Sayings

If you’re in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it’ll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they’re thinking, you can throw a real grenade.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Nice Quotes

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
~Author : Ecclesiasticus Great Sayings

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 Meaningful Sayings

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
~Author : Thomas Szasz The Second Sin 1973 Science and Scientism Wise Quotes

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Motivational Sayings

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another–no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
~Author : Friedrich Engels preface to Kark Marx The Civil War in France 1891 Famous Quotes

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
~Author : Brendan Francis Inspirational Sayings

funny inspirational quotes

August 13, 2009 at 9:29 am

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

famous inspirational motivational quotes

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

Charles Dickens Inspirational Sayings

August 12, 2009 at 8:56 am

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
~Author : Salman Rushdie O Magazine April 2003 Famous Quotes

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
~Author : Charles Dickens Inspirational Sayings

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
~Author : Helen Hayes Nice Quotes

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer’s stomach rise.
~Author : Thomas Fuller Great Sayings

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
~Author : John Adams Meaningful Sayings

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.
~Author : South Wise Quotes

See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way…
~Author : Exodus 2320 Bible Motivational Sayings

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ‘Carpe Diem’ is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow
~Author : George Gordon Byron Famous Quotes

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
~Author : Charles Dudley Warner 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

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