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November 17, 2009 at 4:45 pm

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.
~Author : George Shultz Famous Quotes

Everything in your world is created by what you think.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Inspirational Sayings

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
~Author : Robert A Heinlein Nice Quotes

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty…This is my highest and best use as a human.
~Author : Ben Stein E Online 122003 Great Sayings

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
~Author : Fernandez de Andrada Meaningful Sayings

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
~Author : Robert Byrne Popular Sayings

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~Author : William Wordsworth Ode Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 1803 Wise Quotes

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.
~Author : Corrine Dewlow Witty Sayings

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before.
~Author : Mitchell Burgess Motivational Sayings

Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
~Author : Edmund Waller Go Lovely Rose stanza 1 Famous Quotes

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
~Author : Niccolo Machiavelli Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy Inspirational Sayings

For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn
~Author : George Gordon Byron Nice Quotes

Franklin P Jones Famous Quotes

October 30, 2009 at 7:40 am

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

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October 12, 2009 at 6:55 pm

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

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September 12, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Famous Quotes

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
~Author : George Gissing Inspirational Sayings

Work is victory.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~Author : Walter Gagehot Great Sayings

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
~Author : Albert Einstein Meaningful Sayings

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
~Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero Wise Quotes

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
~Author : Henry Kissinger Motivational Sayings

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
~Author : Jimmy Demaret Famous Quotes

Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain….The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God — expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.
~Author : John Calvin Inspirational Sayings

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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 31, 2009 at 4:01 pm

It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.
~Author : A L Prusick Famous Quotes

There is no place in nature for extinction.
~Author : Licretius Inspirational Sayings

Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.
~Author : Alexander Hamilton P 217 A History of the American People by P Johnson Nice Quotes

This book fills a much-needed gap.
~Author : Moses Hadas Great Sayings

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Meaningful Sayings

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
~Author : Thomas H Huxley Wise Quotes

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
~Author : Edward M Kennedy Motivational Sayings

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we’ll find it.
~Author : Sam Levenson Famous Quotes

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
~Author : Robin Williams Inspirational Sayings

Ovid Inspirational Sayings

August 30, 2009 at 4:53 pm

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Famous Quotes

If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson letter to Samuel Kercheval July 12 1816 Nice Quotes

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
~Author : Karl Kraus Great Sayings

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
~Author : Alexander Pope Meaningful Sayings

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Wise Quotes

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
~Author : Jean Giraudoux Motivational Sayings

Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they’re doing and saying in films right now just shouldn’t be allowed. There’s no dignity anymore and I think that’s very important.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Famous Quotes

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
~Author : Ovid Inspirational Sayings

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August 25, 2009 at 11:18 am

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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August 22, 2009 at 5:34 pm

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
~Author : Dorothy Rothschild Parker Famous Quotes

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.
~Author : Truman Capote Inspirational Sayings

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
~Author : Thomas H Huxley Nice Quotes

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Great Sayings

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken on its own merits.
~Author : Dan Barker Losing Faith in Faith 1992 Meaningful Sayings

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.
~Author : Duchess de Abrantes Wise Quotes

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Motivational Sayings

Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
~Author : Leone Levi Famous Quotes

Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Tempest Act 5 scene 1 Inspirational Sayings

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August 13, 2009 at 9:29 am

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

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