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Monday, November 17, 2008

After one look at this planet any visitor

Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.
~Author : William S Burroughs Wise Quotes

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
~Author : Nicholas Chamfort Motivational Sayings

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
~Author : Lord Acton in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton April 3 1887 Famous Quotes

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
~Author : Sir Arthur Helps Inspirational Sayings

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
~Author : George Santayana Nice Quotes

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
~Author : Sir Francis Bacon Great Sayings

There is a homely old adage which runs

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts.
~Author : Claude T Bissell Great Sayings

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Speech in Chicago 3 Apr 1903 Meaningful Sayings

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Wise Quotes

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend
~Author : Ronnie Hawkins Motivational Sayings

A motion to adjourn is always in order.
~Author : Robert A Heinlein Famous Quotes

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
~Author : Agnes Repplier Nice Quotes

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
~Author : Edwin Louis Cole Great Sayings

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
~Author : Clarence Darrow Meaningful Sayings

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
~Author : Immanuel Kant Wise Quotes

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it ? three minutes; to collect the data in it ? all my life.
~Author : F Scott Fitzgerald Motivational Sayings

Second thoughts are ever wiser.
~Author : Euripides Famous Quotes

Saturday, October 18, 2008

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
~Author : Albert Einstein Wise Quotes

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
~Author : Nicanor Parra Motivational Sayings

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.
~Author : H L Mencken Famous Quotes

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
~Author : Samuel Butler Inspirational Sayings

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
~Author : Archibald MacLeish Nice Quotes

Live free or die.
~Author : New Hampshire State Motto Great Sayings

The book you don't read cant help.
~Author : Jim Rohn Meaningful Sayings

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
~Author : Simonides Wise Quotes

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
~Author : Socrates Great Sayings

What you give you get, ten times over.
~Author : Yoruba Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
~Author : George Eliot Wise Quotes

The humble suffer when the mighty disagree.
~Author : Phaedrus Motivational Sayings

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment ... both of individuals and of humanity.
~Author : Alfred Adler Famous Quotes

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique.
~Author : William James Inspirational Sayings

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
~Author : Adolph Hitler Nice Quotes

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift (Rom. 126-8).
~Author : Bruce Kemper Great Sayings

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Walden 1854 Famous Quotes

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
~Author : Amy Vanderbilt Inspirational Sayings

Every man has two countries his own and France.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Nice Quotes

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.
~Author : Bill Cosby Time Flies Great Sayings

How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.
~Author : Edward R Nida Meaningful Sayings

Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
~Author : May Sarton Wise Quotes

Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
~Author : George Will Motivational Sayings

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
~Author : Katherine Paterson Famous Quotes

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
~Author : Bulgarian Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
~Author : Emmeline Pankhurst Wise Quotes

A woman should never be trusted with money.
~Author : Jane Austen The Watsons Motivational Sayings

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
~Author : Bryant McGill Stanford Lectures on Poetry 1990 Famous Quotes

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Author : Thomas Alva Edison Inspirational Sayings

Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.
~Author : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Nice Quotes

A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely ridden.
~Author : Mexican Proverb Great Sayings

By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Meaningful Sayings

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
~Author : Karl Kraus Wise Quotes

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
~Author : African Proverb Motivational Sayings

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