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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

funny wise quotes – words of wisdom

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

Short Quotes And Nice Saying

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

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 Inspirational Sayings

August 27, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.
~Author : Yogi Berra Famous Quotes

I was going to buy a copy of “The Power of Positive Thinking”, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
~Author : Ronnie Shakes Inspirational Sayings

If you’re in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it’ll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they’re thinking, you can throw a real grenade.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Nice Quotes

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
~Author : Ecclesiasticus Great Sayings

I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there.
~Author : John Flansburgh Meaningful Sayings

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
~Author : Thomas Szasz The Second Sin 1973 Science and Scientism Wise Quotes

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Motivational Sayings

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another–no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
~Author : Friedrich Engels preface to Kark Marx The Civil War in France 1891 Famous Quotes

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
~Author : Brendan Francis Inspirational Sayings

wise words of wisdom

August 26, 2009 at 4:26 pm

There is always something for which to be thankful.
~Author : Charles Dickens Famous Quotes

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
~Author : John Burroughs Inspirational Sayings

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government…
~Author : Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence Nice Quotes

Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature’s changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
~Author : H Hahn Blavatsky Great Sayings

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
~Author : Norman R Augustine Meaningful Sayings

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
~Author : Cesare Lombroso Wise Quotes

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Motivational Sayings

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
~Author : Ronald Firbank Famous Quotes

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
~Author : Richard Feynman Inspirational Sayings

Random Wise Sayings

August 21, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
~Author : A Sachs Famous Quotes

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Inspirational Sayings

The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one;
Yet the life of a whole life dies
When love is done.
~Author : Francis William Bourdillon Nice Quotes

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.
~Author : Anonymous Great Sayings

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~Author : e e cummings Meaningful Sayings

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Wise Quotes

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.
~Author : Ellen DeGeneres Motivational Sayings

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
~Author : Socrates Famous Quotes

If there is no gardener there is no garden.
~Author : Stephen R Covey First things First Inspirational Sayings

Attitude Quotes, Sayings about Positive Attitudes

August 20, 2009 at 9:55 am

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson Famous Quotes

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing
~Author : Phocion Inspirational Sayings

Nobody ever died of laughter.
~Author : Max Beerbohm Nice Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~Author : Voltaire Great Sayings

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
~Author : Adele Brookman Meaningful Sayings

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Wise Quotes

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
~Author : Vidal Sassoon Motivational Sayings

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Famous Quotes

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
~Author : George Will Inspirational Sayings

famous inspirational motivational quotes

August 13, 2009 at 9:25 am

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
~Author : Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan Famous Quotes

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
~Author : Elizabeth Bowen Inspirational Sayings

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
~Author : Joseph Addison Nice Quotes

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
~Author : Joan Klempner Great Sayings

Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Meaningful Sayings

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
~Author : Albert Einstein Wise Quotes

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
~Author : Joan Rivers Famous Quotes

I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there.
~Author : John Flansburgh Inspirational Sayings

David Eddings King of the Murgos Famous Quotes

August 11, 2009 at 10:24 am

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
~Author : David Eddings King of the Murgos Famous Quotes

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that’s working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he’d do it. In government, you don’t have to worry about that.
~Author : George Pratt Shultz Inspirational Sayings

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
~Author : Baruch Spinoza The Ethics Nice Quotes

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
~Author : John Stuart Mill Great Sayings

Common sense is not so common.
~Author : Voltaire Meaningful Sayings

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Wise Quotes

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America’s classrooms in the first place.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Motivational Sayings

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~Author : Confucius Famous Quotes

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
~Author : Rabindranath Tagore Inspirational Sayings

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