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swapquot — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:09:45 +0000

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
~Author : Adolph Monod Famous Quotes

Genius is of no country.
~Author : Charles Churchill Inspirational Sayings

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.
~Author : Tanielle Naus Nice Quotes

Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.
~Author : Waiter Rant Waiter Rant weblog 062105 Great Sayings

Deus ex machina A god from the machine
~Author : Menander Meaningful Sayings

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
~Author : Gerald R Ford Inaugural Address 9 August 1974 Popular Sayings

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites…
~Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Commencement Address at Harvard University June 8 1978 Wise Quotes

Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
~Author : P J O’Rourke Witty Sayings

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Motivational Sayings

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Famous Quotes

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
~Author : Brendan Francis Behan Inspirational Sayings

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
~Author : H L Mencken Nice Quotes

Nice Witty Sayings

swapquot — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:40:16 +0000

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

amazing inspiring quotes

swapquot — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:21 +0000

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

swapquot — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:40:03 +0000

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

swapquot — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:25:32 +0000

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

swapquot — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:57:46 +0000

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

Short Quotes And Nice Saying

swapquot — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:47 +0000

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

Quentin Crisp Famous Quotes

swapquot — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:41:17 +0000

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
~Author : Quentin Crisp Famous Quotes

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin
~Author : Horace Inspirational Sayings

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
~Author : Adolf Hitler Mien Kampf Great Sayings

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away – leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
~Author : Kenneth Patchen Meaningful Sayings

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do.
~Author : Dale Carnegie Wise Quotes

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Motivational Sayings

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks’ reason for living.
~Author : Toni Cade Bambara Famous Quotes

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
~Author : Walter Bagehot Inspirational Sayings

Sir John Denham Famous Quotes

swapquot — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:56:24 +0000

Tis the most certain sign, the world’s accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst.
~Author : Sir John Denham Famous Quotes

If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow any more.
~Author : Shirley Mount Hufstedler Inspirational Sayings

All a man can betray is his conscience.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Nice Quotes

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
~Author : Kim Hubbard Great Sayings

What we call ‘Progress’ is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Meaningful Sayings

One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
~Author : J R R Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 1954 chapter 2 Wise Quotes

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
~Author : Albert Einstein The World as I See It Motivational Sayings

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
~Author : R C Samsel Famous Quotes

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
~Author : Cyril Connolly Inspirational Sayings

Random Great Quotes

swapquot — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:21:22 +0000

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
~Author : Mother Theresa Famous Quotes

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
~Author : H L Mencken Inspirational Sayings

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
~Author : John Dewey Nice Quotes

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
~Author : F J Raymond Great Sayings

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
~Author : Adlai E Stevenson Jr Meaningful Sayings

Do one thing every day that scares you.
~Author : Eleanor Roosevelt Wise Quotes

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.
~Author : Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
~Author : Audrey Giorgi Famous Quotes

Men are apt to offend (’tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
~Author : William Congreve Inspirational Sayings