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swapquot — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:52:08 +0000

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
~Author : Henry Louis Mencken Famous Quotes

The road to a friend’s house is never long.
~Author : Danish proverb Inspirational Sayings

For ’tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard…
~Author : William Shakespeare Nice Quotes

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
~Author : Maya Angelou Great Sayings

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
~Author : Martha Graham Meaningful Sayings

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
~Author : James Grover Thurber Popular Sayings

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
~Author : Antisthenes Wise Quotes

The character of a man is known from his conversations.
~Author : Menander Witty Sayings

Do one thing every day that scares you.
~Author : Eleanor Roosevelt Motivational Sayings

Spring is a true reconstructionist.
~Author : Henry Timrod Famous Quotes

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
~Author : George E Woodberry Inspirational Sayings

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
~Author : Napolean Hill Nice Quotes

meaningful one liners

swapquot — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:53:37 +0000

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

Franklin P Jones Famous Quotes

swapquot — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:40:03 +0000

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
~Author : Franklin P Jones Famous Quotes

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
~Author : Scott Adams Inspirational Sayings

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
~Author : Epicurus Nice Quotes

Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it — badly.
~Author : Henry Spencer Great Sayings

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.
~Author : Rodney Dangerfield Meaningful Sayings

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.
~Author : Juvenal Satires Popular Sayings

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Wise Quotes

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation.
~Author : Gail Sheehy Witty Sayings

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
~Author : Prince Otto Motivational Sayings

Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
~Author : Voltaire Famous Quotes

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.
~Author : Jean Paul Richter Inspirational Sayings

You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
~Author : Tove Jansson Nice Quotes

Nice Amazing Phrases And Motivational Quotes

swapquot — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:35:22 +0000

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

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

wise words of wisdom

swapquot — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:26:39 +0000

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

Nice Inspiring Quotes & Sayings

swapquot — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:18:01 +0000

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
~Author : William Hutton Famous Quotes

The game is afoot.
~Author : Sir Arther Connan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Inspirational Sayings

The only atheism is the denial of truth.
~Author : Arthur Lynch Nice Quotes

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself
~Author : Sir Richard F Burton Great Sayings

The world isn?t interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.
~Author : Raul Armesto Meaningful Sayings

There are four kinds of Homicide felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
~Author : Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Wise Quotes

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
~Author : B A Billingsly Motivational Sayings

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Lombardi Winning is the only thing by Jerry Kramer Famous Quotes

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
~Author : Harvey Cox Inspirational Sayings

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swapquot — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:33:47 +0000

Every nation ridicules other nations — and all are right.
~Author : Arthur Schopenhauer Famous Quotes

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Inspirational Sayings

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
~Author : Plato The Republic Nice Quotes

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
~Author : Mel Brooks Great Sayings

A book holds a house of gold.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)
~Author : William Occam Wise Quotes

It’s better to be known by six people for something you’re proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you’re not.
~Author : Albert Brooks Motivational Sayings

I bet when they weren’t fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.
~Author : Max Frisch Inspirational Sayings

Random Great sayings

swapquot — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:45:50 +0000

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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swapquot — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:29:13 +0000

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