Monday, November 17, 2008

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
~Author : English Proverb Nice Quotes

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
~Author : Robert Morley Great Sayings

The next best thing to winning is losing At least you've been in the race.
~Author : Nellie Hershey Tullis Meaningful Sayings

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
~Author : Kongming Zhuge Liang Wise Quotes

A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
~Author : Mark Twain Motivational Sayings

A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.
~Author : Steward Alsop Famous Quotes

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
~Author : Sydney Harris Inspirational Sayings

It?s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
~Author : Hugh Elliott Standing Room Only weblog 020905 Nice Quotes

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
~Author : Pearl Bailey Great Sayings

You have to eat the first piece of candy Before you can eat the whole bag.
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.
~Author : Unknown Wise Quotes

The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed.
~Author : Geoffrey Gorer Motivational Sayings

Few friendships would survive if each one knew

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
~Author : John Erskine Famous Quotes

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
~Author : Blaise Pascal Inspirational Sayings

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
~Author : Richard Bach Nice Quotes

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
~Author : Stewart L Udall Great Sayings

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
~Author : Marabel Morgan The Electric Woman Meaningful Sayings

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
~Author : Douglas Adams Wise Quotes

Saturday, October 18, 2008

The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained

The longer the title, the less important the job.
~Author : George Stanley McGovern Meaningful Sayings

For it is in giving that we receive.
~Author : Saint Francis of Assisi Wise Quotes

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
~Author : Douglas Noel Adams Motivational Sayings

The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
~Author : Elizabeth Stone Famous Quotes

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Trine Inspirational Sayings

The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
~Author : David Frost Nice Quotes

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
~Author : Sir Arthur Eddington Great Sayings

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
~Author : John Adams Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography John Adams by David McCullough p 19 Meaningful Sayings

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
~Author : Pamela Ribon Why Girls Are Weird 2003 Nice Quotes

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
~Author : Tom Clancy The Teeth Of The Tiger page 180 Great Sayings

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
~Author : E M Forster Two Cheers for Democracy 1951 Meaningful 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 Wise Quotes

I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work.
~Author : Thomas Alva Edison Motivational Sayings

All I want to do is to minister to someone, And if I do that, Then the Lord's work in me has been done.
~Author : Unknown Famous Quotes

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
~Author : Walter Stegner Inspirational Sayings

The moment you're born you're done for.
~Author : Arnold Bennett Nice Quotes

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties

I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
~Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton Famous Quotes

Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Inspirational Sayings

We can only learn to love by loving.
~Author : Iris Murdoch Nice Quotes

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
~Author : Charles Dickens A Tale Of Two Cities Great Sayings

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Meaningful Sayings

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more.
~Author : Collen McCullough Wise Quotes

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
~Author : Laurie Colwin Motivational Sayings

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
~Author : Saint Jerome Letter 48 Great Sayings

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
~Author : Quentin Crisp Meaningful Sayings

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
~Author : William Congreve The Mourning Bride Wise Quotes

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Motivational Sayings

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
~Author : Pope John Paul II aka Karol Wojtyla Famous Quotes

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
~Author : Seneca Inspirational Sayings

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~Author : US Declaration of Independence Nice Quotes