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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

People Quotations And Inspirational One Liner

October 25, 2009 at 7:24 am

When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad Love Quotation
It is more blessed to give than to receive Cool Phrase
When you feel bad about yourself you reverse your magnet and repel people Romantic Saying
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children
It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children
I’m old enough to know better, but still too young to care
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian
Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects
Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace
I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge
Let’s dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year
For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city
All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.] God loveth the clean
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run
Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way
If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter..
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment Love Phrase

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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

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August 26, 2009 at 4:26 pm

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
~Author : Hellen Keller Famous Quotes

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
~Author : St Francis of Assisi Inspirational Sayings

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
~Author : Neil Gaiman Sandman Nice Quotes

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
~Author : Thomas H Huxley Great Sayings

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.
~Author : Sir Arthur Wing Pinero Meaningful Sayings

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.
~Author : Dr Wise Quotes

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
~Author : Denis Diderot Motivational Sayings

Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us pass’d the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to.
~Author : F Scott Famous Quotes

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
~Author : Jean Baptiste Colbert 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

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

Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positive Sayings

August 20, 2009 at 9:56 am

Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.
~Author : Anthony Sampson Inspirational Sayings

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
~Author : Victor Hugo Nice Quotes

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
~Author : Anatole France Great Sayings

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Meaningful Sayings

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
~Author : Francois de La Rochefoucauld Wise Quotes

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Motivational Sayings

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
~Author : Anna Quindlen Famous Quotes

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.
~Author : Mo Udall Inspirational Sayings

Poems, Quotes, Sayings for All Occasions

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

Charles Dickens Inspirational Sayings

August 12, 2009 at 8:56 am

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
~Author : Salman Rushdie O Magazine April 2003 Famous Quotes

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
~Author : Charles Dickens Inspirational Sayings

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
~Author : Helen Hayes Nice Quotes

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer’s stomach rise.
~Author : Thomas Fuller Great Sayings

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
~Author : John Adams Meaningful Sayings

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.
~Author : South Wise Quotes

See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way…
~Author : Exodus 2320 Bible Motivational Sayings

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ‘Carpe Diem’ is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow
~Author : George Gordon Byron Famous Quotes

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
~Author : Charles Dudley Warner Inspirational Sayings

Random Wise Quotes

August 11, 2009 at 10:20 am

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
~Author : Joseph Addison Cato Famous Quotes

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
~Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton Inspirational Sayings

Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
~Author : John Stuart Mill On Liberty Nice Quotes

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
~Author : Thomas Babington Great Sayings

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Meaningful Sayings

There comes a time in every man’s life and I’ve had many of them.
~Author : Casey Stengel Wise Quotes

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
~Author : Leo Tolstoy Motivational Sayings

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
~Author : Saint Bernard Epistle Famous Quotes

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Sayings

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