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swapquot — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:40:16 +0000

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else’s vision.
~Author : Penn Jillette Famous Quotes

The other day I got out my can opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, ‘What am I doing’
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Inspirational Sayings

Warren Franks and Beans Franks and Beans
~Author : There’s Something About Mary Nice Quotes

I’d rather work with someone who’s good at their job but doesn’t like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
~Author : Sam Donaldson Great Sayings

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things – I am tempted to think there are no little things.
~Author : Bruce Barton Meaningful Sayings

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
~Author : H G Wells Popular Sayings

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
~Author : H L Mencken Wise Quotes

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
~Author : Victor Hugo Witty Sayings

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
~Author : William Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
~Author : David H Comins Famous Quotes

Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
~Author : Leonard Bernstein Inspirational Sayings

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
~Author : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Nice Quotes

funny wise quotes – words of wisdom

swapquot — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:02:18 +0000

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
~Author : Antoine De SaintExupery Famous Quotes

Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.
~Author : CaddyShack Inspirational Sayings

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

With Congress, every time they make a joke it’s a law, and every time they make a law it’s a joke.
~Author : Will Rogers Great Sayings

Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How’s that for being born under a bad sign
~Author : Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Meaningful Sayings

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
~Author : W C Fields in Richard J Anobile Godfrey Daniels Popular Sayings

The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.
~Author : Dan Cook Wise Quotes

To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.
~Author : Walker Percy Witty Sayings

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Motivational Sayings

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
~Author : Gore Vidal Famous Quotes

Whom did it benefit.
~Author : Longinus Cassius Inspirational Sayings

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
~Author : Sir Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning 1605 Nice Quotes

Memorable Phrases And Wise Quotation

swapquot — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:57:46 +0000

Roses are red Violets are blue Most poems rhyme This one doesn’t Memorable Phrases
Shared suffering brings people together faster than anything else does Wisdom Quotation
Stupidity is NOT a handicap! PARK ELSEWHERE! Success comes in cans, not can’t s Favorite Quotes
The greatest actions of love often got unnoticed
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
To accomplish something, the first person you have to defeat is yourself
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane
When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell her so
A kid’s idea of a balanced diet is a hamburger in each hand
All the treasure in the world is worthless, unless you have someone to share it with
A rumor is as hard to unspread as butter
A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them
Death is not totally extinguishing the light but turning off the lamp because the dawn has come
Don’t be afraid of tomorrow, for God has already been there
God loves everyone, but probably prefers fruit of the Spirit over religious nuts!
Hating someone is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat
Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply
I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say
I know UNIX, PASCAL, C, FORTRAN, COBOL, and nineteen other high-tech words Favorite Sayings

Short Quotes And Nice Saying

swapquot — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:47 +0000

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 Quotations And Wise Quote

swapquot — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:55:58 +0000

Relationships can be boring – not people! Remember that failure is an event – not a person Interesting One Liners
Shared suffering brings people together faster than anything else does Interesting Saying
Sometimes it’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission Quotable Phrase
The key to happiness is not fixing your problems but changing your attitude towards your problems
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
To light a candle is to cast a shadow
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, place them in their best light
When no one is watching, live as if someone is
A good way to change somebody’s attitude is to change your own
A man who lives in a glass house should change in basement
Art is work, to sell it is art
A tear shed can say more than a hundred words spoken
Attitude must be an art because it draws, and not a science because it can’t be measured
Don’t kill the dream – execute it! Don’t learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade
Do what you love and love what you’re doing, and you’ll never work another day in your life
Hell has no exits.Heaven needs none
I am not religious, I just love the Lord
I don’t blame Congress. If I had 0 billion, I’d be irresponsible too
If we are walking in joy, we are trusting God Men Phrase

Inspirational and Meaningful Sayings for a Better Life

swapquot — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:54:35 +0000

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

Attitude Quotes, Sayings about Positive Attitudes

swapquot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:55:14 +0000

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

famous inspirational quotations

swapquot — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:28:21 +0000

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
~Author : Hubert Humphrey Famous Quotes

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
~Author : James Gordon Inspirational Sayings

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn’t happen in the end.
~Author : James Barrett Scotty Reston Nice Quotes

Principal Any attempt to cheat, especially with my wife, who is a dirty, dirty, tramp, and I am just gonna snap.
~Author : Billy Madison Great Sayings

Imitation is suicide.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
~Author : Irving Wallace Wise Quotes

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope — an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
~Author : John Fowles The Magus Motivational Sayings

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
~Author : Jose Ortega y Gasset Inspirational Sayings

famous inspirational motivational quotes

swapquot — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:25:15 +0000

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

swapquot — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:56:59 +0000

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