memorable sayings & quotes

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

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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.

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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

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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

Oswald Wyler Wise Quotes

2008-10-19T02:55:00.001-07:00

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

2008-10-19T02:54:00.002-07:00

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

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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

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

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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

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

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You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
~Author : Edward Keating Inspirational Sayings

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
~Author : Plato Nice Quotes

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.
~Author : Assyrian Proverb Great Sayings

It may be five years from now, but at some point we'll be better than them.
~Author : Dan Issel Meaningful Sayings

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
~Author : George Carlin Wise Quotes

Silence is a text easy to misread.
~Author : A A Attanasio Motivational Sayings

Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
~Author : Marcel Proust Famous Quotes

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
~Author : Mao Zedong Inspirational Sayings

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

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I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't pretend to even know what the questions are. Hey, where am I
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.
~Author : Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Inspirational Sayings

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
~Author : Stacia Tauscher Nice Quotes

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
~Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Great Sayings

The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
~Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet Meaningful Sayings

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
~Author : Robert Francis Kennedy 1968 presidential campaign Wise Quotes

To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.
~Author : The Best of the Best motion picture Motivational Sayings

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me
~Author : Brian Tracy Inspirational Sayings

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Nice Quotes

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
~Author : French Proverb Great Sayings

Niether a borrower nor a lender be.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth.
~Author : George Crabbe Wise Quotes

The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
~Author : Seneca Motivational Sayings

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Oprah Magazine May 2004 Famous Quotes

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Inspirational Sayings

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

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I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
~Author : Trey and Matt Stone Parker Famous Quotes

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Lombardi Winning is the only thing by Jerry Kramer Inspirational Sayings

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
~Author : Antoine de SaintExupery The Little Prince Nice Quotes

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
~Author : Rod Serling Great Sayings

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
~Author : Francois de La Rochefoucauld Meaningful Sayings

The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one;
Yet the life of a whole life dies
When love is done.
~Author : Francis William Bourdillon Wise Quotes

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
~Author : Homer Motivational Sayings

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

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Hello seeker Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.
~Author : Firesign Theatre Famous Quotes

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
~Author : Ben Sweetland Inspirational Sayings

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite goodMaybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
~Author : Jay Leno Nice Quotes

It is better to live richly than to die rich.
~Author : Author Unknown Great Sayings

Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.
~Author : Hunter S Thompson Kingdom of Fear Meaningful Sayings

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
~Author : JP McEvoy Wise Quotes

The world is too much with us late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon
~Author : William Wordsworth Motivational Sayings

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

2008-09-30T08:42:00.001-07:00

I talk to God, but the sky is empty.
~Author : Sylvia Plath Wise Quotes

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
~Author : Dan Quayle Motivational Sayings

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
~Author : Jackie Onassis Famous Quotes

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
~Author : Samuel Butler Inspirational Sayings

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
~Author : William Shakespeare Othello Act 3 scene 3 Nice Quotes

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
~Author : Hindustani Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
~Author : Jules Renard Wise Quotes

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Motivational Sayings

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
~Author : Doris Day Famous Quotes

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
~Author : Lao Tzu Inspirational Sayings

I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Nice Quotes

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

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Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
~Author : Francois de La Rochefoucauld Famous Quotes

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
~Author : Erma Bombeck Inspirational Sayings

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Nice Quotes

What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
~Author : Pedro Calderon de la Barca Great Sayings

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
~Author : V clav Havel Disturbing the Peace ch 5 1986 tr 1990 Meaningful Sayings

With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.
~Author : P J O'Rourke Wise Quotes

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Motivational Sayings

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
~Author : Leonardo DaVinci The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy Famous Quotes

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
~Author : David H Comins Inspirational Sayings

Our children change uswhether they live or not.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Nice Quotes

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
~Author : Ed Howe Great Sayings

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~Author : Mark Twain Meaningful Sayings

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

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Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about.
~Author : C C Colton Nice Quotes

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
~Author : Lenny Bruce Great Sayings

It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about.
~Author : Barbara Friedman Meaningful Sayings

When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.
~Author : Swedish Proverb Wise Quotes

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
~Author : Owen Felltham Motivational Sayings

Generally we study too much and think too little.
~Author : Hary Latham Doherty Famous Quotes

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Inspirational Sayings

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Nice Quotes

They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.

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Goodbye, and hello, as always.
~Author : Roger Zelazny Inspirational Sayings

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
~Author : Jose Raul Bernardo The Secret of the Bulls Simon Schuster 1996 Nice Quotes

They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Great Sayings

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
~Author : Albert Einstein Meaningful Sayings

If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Wise Quotes

If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.
~Author : Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince 1513 Famous Quotes

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

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The great discoveries are usually obvious.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Famous Quotes

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Inspirational Sayings

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Nice Quotes

This is like deja vu all over again.
~Author : Yogi Berra Great Sayings

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Meaningful Sayings

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
~Author : Hellen Keller Wise Quotes

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
~Author : Henry Ward Beecher Motivational Sayings

Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
~Author : Marquis de Vauvenargues Famous Quotes