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swapquot — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:37:15 +0000

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Motivational Quotes And Popular Wisdom Quote To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.
Cool One Liners And Romantic Men Quote The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
Quotes Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Cute One Liners And Romantic Amazing Proverb Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Analysis kills spontaneity.
Quotes Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity.

Nice Witty Sayings

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

Nice Great Sayings

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

Long Quotes And Famous Phrase

swapquot — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:25:18 +0000

Let them learn first to show pity at home Meaningful OneLiners
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble Wise Quotation
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others Nice Phrases
A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.] Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age
It is a wise father that knows his own child
For many are called, but few are chosen
Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part
The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person
There is never any peace for those who resist God
I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans
Turn your wounds into wisdom
And the Baron’s retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday
Circumstances beyond my individual control
In the busy haunts of men
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man
Passion: A feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you’ve never felt before
Only boring people get bored
Don’t ask what your community can do for you. Ask what you can do for your community
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart Nice Quotations

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

cool great sayings

swapquot — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:59:23 +0000

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1 scene 1 cool great sayings

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
~Author : Robert G Ingersoll Inspirational Sayings

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
~Author : Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf Nice Quotes

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.
~Author : Margery Cuyler Great Sayings

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.
~Author : Christina Foyle The Times 1993 Meaningful Sayings

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
~Author : Henry Miller The Wisdom of the Heart Wise Quotes

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
~Author : Winston Churchill Motivational Sayings

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.
~Author : Native American Prayer Famous Quotes

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Inspirational Sayings

amazing inspiring sayings

swapquot — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:30:54 +0000

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.
~Author : amazing inspiring sayings

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
~Author : Francis Bacon amazing Sayings

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
~Author : Louis D Brandeis inspiring Quotes

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Great Sayings

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.
~Author : Bernard Grasset Meaningful Sayings

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever – and the instinct that urges the question is God’s answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
~Author : Edward George Earle Lytton BulwerLytton Wise Quotes

The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
~Author : John F Kennedy Motivational Sayings

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
~Author : Anthony Brandt Famous Quotes

Man is by nature a political animal.
~Author : Aristotle Inspirational Sayings

Oprah Winfrey Famous Quotes

swapquot — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:55:53 +0000

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Famous Quotes

Wooderson That’s what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
~Author : Dazed and Confused Inspirational Sayings

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
~Author : Buddha Nice Quotes

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform “w” spelling, so that “which” and “one” would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish “y” replasing it with “i” and Iear 4 might fiks the “g
j” anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez “c”, “y” and “x” — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais “ch”, “sh”, and “th” rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
~Author : Mark Twain A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling Great Sayings

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~Author : Helen Keller Meaningful Sayings

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
~Author : Arab Proverb Wise Quotes

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~Author : David Starr Jordan The Philosophy of Despair Motivational Sayings

In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell’s ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world’s most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world’s oldest atheist. ‘What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you’re wrong’ she asked. ‘I mean, what if–uh–when the time comes, you should meet Him What will you say’ Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, ‘Why, I should say, ‘God, you gave us insufficient evidence.’ ‘
~Author : Al Seckel Famous Quotes

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Inspirational Sayings

good meaningful quotes

swapquot — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:33:02 +0000

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

Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positive Sayings

swapquot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:56:20 +0000

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