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swapquot — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:31:51 +0000

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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swapquot — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:53:37 +0000

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
Wisdom Popular Sayings And Famous meaningful one liners
The longer you wait, the better the date.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Memorable Love Phrases And Coll Wisdom Quotation
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
Events are less important than our response to them.
First things first! But not necessarily in that order.
Funny thing about humility. Just when you think you’ve got it, you’ve lost it.
Long Love Quotations And Cute Daily Saying
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight.
Anyone can make a mountain out of a molehill by throwing on more dirt.
Best friends don’t ask you: Is something wrong?\”Best friends ask you: \”Whats wrong?\”.”
Butcher’s window: Let me meat your needs.
He who laughs last thinks slowest!
If you can’t be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
It is always the ones who talk loudest who do the least.
Jesus did not come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible.
Love is the only fire hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature’s will.
Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.
One of the most important things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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swapquot — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:24:16 +0000

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

Sydney Harris Famous Quotes

swapquot — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:24:34 +0000

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood — and an almost total inability to practice it.
~Author : Sydney Harris Famous Quotes

Shell to DOS… Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS…
~Author : Anon Inspirational Sayings

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Walden Nice Quotes

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
~Author : Juan Ramon Jiminez Great Sayings

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
~Author : Edgar Watson Howe Meaningful Sayings

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Popular Sayings

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
~Author : Irish Blessing Wise Quotes

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.
~Author : Leo Burnett Witty Sayings

The only way round is through.
~Author : Robert Frost Motivational Sayings

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
~Author : John Davidson Rockefeller Sr Famous Quotes

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
~Author : Anna Quindlen Inspirational Sayings

I didn’t really say everything I said.
~Author : Yogi Berra Nice Quotes

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swapquot — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:58:31 +0000

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
~Author : Robert J Shiller Irrational Exuberance Famous Quotes

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
~Author : Tyron Edwards Inspirational Sayings

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Nice Quotes

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
~Author : Margaret Fuller Great Sayings

Men willingly believe what they wish.
~Author : Julius Caesar Meaningful Sayings

Art and science have their meeting point in method.
~Author : Edward BulwerLytton Wise Quotes

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson December 13 1963 Motivational Sayings

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
~Author : SbastienRoch Nicolas de Chamfort Famous Quotes

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
~Author : Jamaican Proverb Inspirational Sayings

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swapquot — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:26:39 +0000

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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swapquot — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:34:30 +0000

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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swapquot — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:45:50 +0000

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
~Author : Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Famous Quotes

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
~Author : Sally Koch Inspirational Sayings

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
~Author : Maxim Gorky Nice Quotes

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
~Author : Socrates Great Sayings

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
~Author : Robert South Meaningful Sayings

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Wise Quotes

I am a Marxist–of the Groucho tendency.
~Author : Anonymous French slogan Motivational Sayings

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
~Author : Marion Wink Famous Quotes

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
~Author : Sir Arnold Bax Inspirational Sayings

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swapquot — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:29:13 +0000

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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swapquot — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:25:15 +0000

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