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October 19, 2009 at 5:35 pm

A room without books is like a body without a soul
Quotable One Liners

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget
Amazing Quotes

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with

Only little boys and old men sneer at love

Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much

Every man has his price

Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops

Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers

We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference

It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one

To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause

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

amazing inspiring sayings

September 23, 2009 at 8:58 am

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
~Author : Robert J Shiller Irrational Exuberance Famous Quotes

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
~Author : Tyron Edwards Inspirational Sayings

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Nice Quotes

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
~Author : Margaret Fuller Great Sayings

Men willingly believe what they wish.
~Author : Julius Caesar Meaningful Sayings

Art and science have their meeting point in method.
~Author : Edward BulwerLytton Wise Quotes

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson December 13 1963 Motivational Sayings

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
~Author : SbastienRoch Nicolas de Chamfort Famous Quotes

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
~Author : Jamaican Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Inspirational and Meaningful Sayings for a Better Life

September 5, 2009 at 7:54 am

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

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August 26, 2009 at 4:26 pm

There is always something for which to be thankful.
~Author : Charles Dickens Famous Quotes

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
~Author : John Burroughs Inspirational Sayings

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government…
~Author : Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence Nice Quotes

Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature’s changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
~Author : H Hahn Blavatsky Great Sayings

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
~Author : Norman R Augustine Meaningful Sayings

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
~Author : Cesare Lombroso Wise Quotes

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Motivational Sayings

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
~Author : Ronald Firbank Famous Quotes

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
~Author : Richard Feynman Inspirational Sayings

Random Wise Sayings

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

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

Random Great Quotes

August 11, 2009 at 10:21 am

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
~Author : Mother Theresa Famous Quotes

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
~Author : H L Mencken Inspirational Sayings

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
~Author : John Dewey Nice Quotes

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
~Author : F J Raymond Great Sayings

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
~Author : Adlai E Stevenson Jr Meaningful Sayings

Do one thing every day that scares you.
~Author : Eleanor Roosevelt Wise Quotes

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.
~Author : Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
~Author : Audrey Giorgi Famous Quotes

Men are apt to offend (’tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
~Author : William Congreve Inspirational Sayings

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