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Famous great sayings

July 12, 2010 at 8:36 am

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
~Author : Robert Lynd Famous Quotes

Lakes, rivers, streams…all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
~Author : Muhammed Ali in a television interview Inspirational Sayings

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
~Author : Vannevar Bush Nice Quotes

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)
~Author : Anonymous Great Sayings

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
~Author : Beckett Meaningful Sayings

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Popular Sayings

Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one’s life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one’s life long.
~Author : William Congreve Wise Quotes

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
~Author : James McNeill Whistler Witty Sayings

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Motivational Sayings

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
~Author : Gloria Gaither Famous Quotes

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
~Author : Stephen A Brennan Inspirational Sayings

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
~Author : Martin Luther Nice Quotes

Many Popular Sayings

June 16, 2010 at 6:09 am

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Famous Quotes

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
~Author : Latin Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
~Author : Woody Allen Nice Quotes

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
~Author : Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr Great Sayings

The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
~Author : Hume Cronyn Meaningful Sayings

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~Author : Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Popular Sayings

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
~Author : Frank Zappa Wise Quotes

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
~Author : Antoine de SaintExupery Witty Sayings

Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty…
~Author : Senator William Grayson Motivational Sayings

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
~Author : Frances Watkins Harper Famous Quotes

I wish outer-space guys would conquer Earth and make people their pets, because I’d like to have one of those little basket-beds with my name on it.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Inspirational Sayings

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~Author : Hellen Keller Nice Quotes

Nice Witty Sayings

June 6, 2010 at 7:40 am

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

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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

James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr Nice Quotes

October 19, 2009 at 5:25 pm

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
~Author : James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr Famous Quotes

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
~Author : Ursula K LeGuin Inspirational Sayings

I thought using the Ayatollah’s money to support the Nicaraguan resistance … was a neat idea.
~Author : Oliver L North Nice Quotes

Jean Grey Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don’t bring him home… they marry the good guy.
~Author : X2 XMen United Great Sayings

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
~Author : James R Angell Meaningful Sayings

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.
~Author : Aristotle Popular Sayings

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Wise Quotes

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
~Author : Tom Stoppard Witty Sayings

ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.
~Author : Philip Johnson Motivational Sayings

More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party — the acid, final test.
~Author : Adlai Ewing Stevenson Famous Quotes

Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
~Author : Gail Inspirational Sayings

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.
~Author : William Shakespeare Nice Quotes

Memorable Phrases And Wise Quotation

October 12, 2009 at 6:57 pm

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

interesting life sayings

September 16, 2009 at 8:32 am

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.
~Author : President Nixon on the best wife for a president interesting life sayings

The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.
~Author : Ronald Reagan interesting sayings

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~Author : Thomas Alva Edison life Quotes

History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
~Author : Milton Friedman Great Sayings

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
~Author : Seneca Meaningful Sayings

So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)
~Author : Terence Wise Quotes

A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
~Author : Adam Smith Motivational Sayings

Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.
~Author : Bill Sands Famous Quotes

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
~Author : Socrates In 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said ed Robert Byrne 1988 Inspirational Sayings

Nice Inspiring Quotes & Sayings

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 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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