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September 16, 2009 at 8:32 am

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.
~Author : President Nixon on the best wife for a president interesting life sayings

The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.
~Author : Ronald Reagan interesting sayings

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~Author : Thomas Alva Edison life Quotes

History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
~Author : Milton Friedman Great Sayings

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
~Author : Seneca Meaningful Sayings

So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)
~Author : Terence Wise Quotes

A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
~Author : Adam Smith Motivational Sayings

Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.
~Author : Bill Sands Famous Quotes

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
~Author : Socrates In 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said ed Robert Byrne 1988 Inspirational Sayings

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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

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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 31, 2009 at 4:01 pm

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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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

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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

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August 22, 2009 at 5:33 pm

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
~Author : Francis Bacon Famous Quotes

The greater love is a mother’s then comes a dog’s then a sweetheart’s.
~Author : Polish Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
~Author : Thich Nhat Hanh Nice Quotes

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
~Author : Kenich Ohmae Great Sayings

…The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
~Author : Robert Hutchins Meaningful Sayings

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
~Author : William Lloyd Garrison Wise Quotes

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.
~Author : Walt Whitman Famous Quotes

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
~Author : Bette Midler Inspirational Sayings

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August 21, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
~Author : A Sachs Famous Quotes

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Inspirational Sayings

The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one;
Yet the life of a whole life dies
When love is done.
~Author : Francis William Bourdillon Nice Quotes

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.
~Author : Anonymous Great Sayings

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~Author : e e cummings Meaningful Sayings

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Wise Quotes

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.
~Author : Ellen DeGeneres Motivational Sayings

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
~Author : Socrates Famous Quotes

If there is no gardener there is no garden.
~Author : Stephen R Covey First things First Inspirational Sayings

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August 20, 2009 at 9:56 am

Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.
~Author : Anthony Sampson Inspirational Sayings

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
~Author : Victor Hugo Nice Quotes

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
~Author : Anatole France Great Sayings

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Meaningful Sayings

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
~Author : Francois de La Rochefoucauld Wise Quotes

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Motivational Sayings

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
~Author : Anna Quindlen Famous Quotes

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.
~Author : Mo Udall Inspirational Sayings

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August 19, 2009 at 9:07 am

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
~Author : James Arthur Baldwin Famous Quotes

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
~Author : Bjarne Stroustrup Inspirational Sayings

Tessio It’s a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
~Author : Godfather The Nice Quotes

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
~Author : Bertha Flowers Great Sayings

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
~Author : Kenneth A Wells Meaningful Sayings

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
~Author : John Lyly Wise Quotes

A man is so in the way in the house.
~Author : Elizabeth Gaskell Motivational Sayings

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
~Author : Charles J C Lyall Famous Quotes

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
~Author : Jefferson Davis Inspirational Sayings

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