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Famous Nice Sayings

June 7, 2010 at 1:09 pm

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

Long Quotes And Famous Phrase

October 25, 2009 at 7:25 am

Let them learn first to show pity at home Meaningful OneLiners
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble Wise Quotation
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others Nice Phrases
A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.] Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age
It is a wise father that knows his own child
For many are called, but few are chosen
Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part
The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person
There is never any peace for those who resist God
I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans
Turn your wounds into wisdom
And the Baron’s retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday
Circumstances beyond my individual control
In the busy haunts of men
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man
Passion: A feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you’ve never felt before
Only boring people get bored
Don’t ask what your community can do for you. Ask what you can do for your community
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart Nice Quotations

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

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

cool great sayings

September 23, 2009 at 8:59 am

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1 scene 1 cool great sayings

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
~Author : Robert G Ingersoll Inspirational Sayings

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
~Author : Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf Nice Quotes

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.
~Author : Margery Cuyler Great Sayings

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.
~Author : Christina Foyle The Times 1993 Meaningful Sayings

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
~Author : Henry Miller The Wisdom of the Heart Wise Quotes

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
~Author : Winston Churchill Motivational Sayings

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.
~Author : Native American Prayer Famous Quotes

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Inspirational Sayings

Inspirational and Meaningful Sayings for a Better Life

September 5, 2009 at 7:54 am

As the old proverb says “Like readily consorts with like.”
~Author : Cicero Famous Quotes

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Inspirational Sayings

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London.
~Author : Edward Morgan Forster Nice Quotes

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Memory 1996 Great Sayings

The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
~Author : David McIntosh Meaningful Sayings

It is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere,
A lily of a day
is fairer in May
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant of flower and light,
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be.
~Author : Benjamin Johnson Wise Quotes

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
~Author : Bruce Barton Motivational Sayings

Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
~Author : Toni Morrison Famous Quotes

Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.
~Author : Henry James Inspirational Sayings

Ovid Inspirational Sayings

August 30, 2009 at 4:53 pm

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Famous Quotes

If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson letter to Samuel Kercheval July 12 1816 Nice Quotes

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
~Author : Karl Kraus Great Sayings

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
~Author : Alexander Pope Meaningful Sayings

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Wise Quotes

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
~Author : Jean Giraudoux Motivational Sayings

Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they’re doing and saying in films right now just shouldn’t be allowed. There’s no dignity anymore and I think that’s very important.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Famous Quotes

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
~Author : Ovid 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 Great Quotes

August 11, 2009 at 10:21 am

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

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