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Monday, November 17, 2008

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
~Author : Heraclitus of Ephesus Meaningful Sayings

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
~Author : Erma Bombeck Wise Quotes

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
~Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Motivational Sayings

It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species.
~Author : Doctor Who Famous Quotes

I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.
~Author : Henry James The Ambassadors Book Seventh Chapter 2 Inspirational Sayings

Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.
~Author : William Pitt Nice Quotes

No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.
~Author : West African Saying Great Sayings

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers.
~Author : Rainer Maria Rilke Inspirational Sayings

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Nice Quotes

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
~Author : Walter Lippmann Great Sayings

Plan like you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
~Author : Blaise Pascal Wise Quotes

A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.
~Author : Jules Verne Inspirational Sayings

Know the masculine, keep to the feminine.
~Author : Lao Tzu Nice Quotes

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Great Sayings

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.
~Author : Frank Zappa Interview with this submitter New York City 5081980 Meaningful Sayings

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.
~Author : John Ruskin Wise Quotes

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
~Author : William Frank Buckley Jr Motivational Sayings

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Oswald Wyler Wise Quotes

Student: "Can you do problem number twelve?" Wyler: Twelve?...NO!...That problem is on the test.
~Author : Oswald Wyler Wise Quotes

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
~Author : Sir Wilfred Grenfell Motivational Sayings

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
~Author : Egyptian Proverb Famous Quotes

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
~Author : Anonymous Inspirational Sayings

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
~Author : Alexander Woollcott Nice Quotes

We live as we dream - alone.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Great Sayings

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
~Author : HL Mencken Meaningful Sayings

Lois McMaster Bujold Diplomatic Immunity 2002 Nice Quotes

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Diplomatic Immunity 2002 Nice Quotes

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.
~Author : John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Great Sayings

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
~Author : Confucius Meaningful Sayings

I think it would be a good idea.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi when asked what he thought of Western civilization Wise Quotes

Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
~Author : Jean Anouilh Motivational Sayings

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
~Author : Rose Elizabeth Bird Famous Quotes

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.
~Author : Judith Viorst Inspirational Sayings

Robert Byrne Famous Quotes

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
~Author : Robert Byrne Famous Quotes

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
~Author : Abraham J Heschel Inspirational Sayings

Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance.
~Author : M I Abramowitz Nice Quotes

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
~Author : Colette Great Sayings

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
~Author : E Joseph Crossman Meaningful Sayings

Go often to the house of thy friend for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
~Author : Scandinavian Proverb Wise Quotes

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
~Author : John M Ford Motivational Sayings

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
~Author : Marcel Proust Famous Quotes

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
~Author : Earl of Chesterfield Great Sayings

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
~Author : Phyllis Diller Wise Quotes

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
~Author : Mao Zedong Motivational Sayings

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
~Author : Robert Jackson Famous Quotes

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Mysticism and Logic 1917 ch 4 Inspirational Sayings

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
~Author : Lord Chesterfield Nice Quotes

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
~Author : Heinrich Heine Great Sayings

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