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May 29, 2010 at 11:02 am

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

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November 25, 2009 at 3:49 pm

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Famous Quotes

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Even pleasure itself is a toil.
~Author : Manilius Nice Quotes

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.
~Author : Jerry Coleman Great Sayings

To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of ‘for’ and ‘against’ into one organic unity which is without distinctions.
~Author : Bruce Lee Meaningful Sayings

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place – full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America – full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.
~Author : Louis Adamic Popular Sayings

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
~Author : Francis J Braceland O Magazine April 2003 Wise Quotes

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
~Author : Mark Twain Witty Sayings

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
~Author : Voltaire Motivational Sayings

The best love affairs are those we never had.
~Author : Norman Lindsay Famous Quotes

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Sayings

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
~Author : Charles Darwin Nice Quotes

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November 19, 2009 at 4:31 am

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
~Author : Seneca Famous Quotes

When all think alike, no one thinks very much.
~Author : Albert Einstein Inspirational Sayings

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts 1931 Life and Human Nature Nice Quotes

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
~Author : Jane Austen Emma Great Sayings

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
~Author : Voltaire Meaningful Sayings

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
~Author : James Agate Popular Sayings

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
~Author : Doug Larson Wise Quotes

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.
~Author : A Sachs Witty Sayings

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.
~Author : Lu Yen Motivational Sayings

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
~Author : David Bissonette Famous Quotes

High expectations are the key to everything.
~Author : Sam Walton Inspirational Sayings

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
~Author : Wayne W Dyer Nice Quotes

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October 19, 2009 at 5:35 pm

A room without books is like a body without a soul
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget
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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

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October 12, 2009 at 6:56 pm

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

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September 23, 2009 at 8:59 am

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

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September 16, 2009 at 8:30 am

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

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August 25, 2009 at 11:16 am

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
~Author : Ed Howe Famous Quotes

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
~Author : Jennie Jerome Churchill Inspirational Sayings

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment–this day–is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day–each moment of this day–a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.
~Author : Dan Custer Nice Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
~Author : Muhammad Ali Great Sayings

There is no sin greater than ignorance.
~Author : Rudyard Kipling Meaningful Sayings

When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.
~Author : George C Marshall Wise Quotes

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Motivational Sayings

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. … With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
~Author : Edward R Murrow Famous Quotes

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
~Author : Leo Durocher 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 17, 2009 at 10:40 am

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
~Author : Joseph Addison Famous Quotes

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.
~Author : Thomas S Eliot Four Quartets Inspirational Sayings

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
~Author : Jerry Frankhauser Great Sayings

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
~Author : Mary Pickford Meaningful Sayings

The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.
~Author : Author Unknown Wise Quotes

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
~Author : Mother Teresa in her Nobel lecture Motivational Sayings

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
~Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Famous Quotes

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
~Author : Clifton Fadiman Inspirational Sayings

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