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July 14, 2010 at 5:37 am

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.

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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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January 6, 2010 at 12:52 pm

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

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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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September 29, 2009 at 9:21 am

Above all, try something.
~Author : Franklin Delano Roosevelt Famous Quotes

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
~Author : Miles Davis Nice Quotes

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
~Author : Author Unknown Great Sayings

Music is Love in search of a word.
~Author : Sidney Lanier Meaningful Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
~Author : Gertrude Stein Wise Quotes

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
~Author : Sid Taylor Motivational Sayings

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
~Author : Confucius Analects Famous Quotes

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
~Author : Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Sayings


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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 12, 2009 at 6:55 pm

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

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August 19, 2009 at 9:07 am

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
~Author : James Arthur Baldwin Famous Quotes

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
~Author : Bjarne Stroustrup Inspirational Sayings

Tessio It’s a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
~Author : Godfather The Nice Quotes

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
~Author : Bertha Flowers Great Sayings

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
~Author : Kenneth A Wells Meaningful Sayings

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
~Author : John Lyly Wise Quotes

A man is so in the way in the house.
~Author : Elizabeth Gaskell Motivational Sayings

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
~Author : Charles J C Lyall Famous Quotes

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
~Author : Jefferson Davis Inspirational Sayings

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August 19, 2009 at 9:05 am

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
~Author : Max Eastman Famous Quotes

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
~Author : H Jackson Brown Jr Inspirational Sayings

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Nice Quotes

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
~Author : Louisa May Alcott Great Sayings

My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.
~Author : Edna St Vincent Millay A Few Figs from Thistles 1920 Meaningful Sayings

I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
~Author : Debi Thomas Wise Quotes

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
~Author : Martin Luther Motivational Sayings

Language is the dress of thought.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Famous Quotes

Hatred is the anger of the weak.
~Author : Alphonse Daudet Inspirational Sayings

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