Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
~Author : Conan Doyle Inspirational Sayings

The only cure for grief is action.
~Author : George Henry Lewes Nice Quotes

The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
~Author : Jeremy Bentham philosopher and animal rights activist Great Sayings

Love: two minds without a single thought.
~Author : Philip Barry Meaningful Sayings

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
~Author : Frederick Douglass Wise Quotes

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be – whether they will admit that or not.
~Author : Earl Nightingale Motivational Sayings

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
~Author : Ruth Ross Famous Quotes

The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How’s the President’
~Author : Will Rogers Inspirational Sayings

Life just isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
~Author : Eliot Wiggington Inspirational Sayings

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
~Author : Edith Ann Nice Quotes

It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
~Author : Sydney Harris Great Sayings

Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and ’tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
~Author : Hannah Whitall Smith Wise Quotes

In politics I am growing indifferent — I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.
~Author : Francois Arouet Motivational Sayings

Don’t get suckered in by the comments … they can terribly be misleading.
~Author : Dave Storer Famous Quotes

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We’re in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
~Author : Edward Irving Koch Inspirational Sayings

He who loses faith, loses all.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
~Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero Nice Quotes

God is in the details.
~Author : Mies van der Rohe Great Sayings

It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
~Author : Archbishop William Temple 1955 Meaningful Sayings

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.
~Author : Barbara Kingsolver Life Without GoGo Boots personal essay Wise Quotes

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
~Author : Thomas Hobbes Motivational Sayings

If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
~Author : Grace Murray Hopper Famous Quotes

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Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
~Author : Johnson Inspirational Sayings

I have often asked myself why human beings have any rights at all. I always come to the conclusion that human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because, under certain circumstances, people accept them without compulsion and are willing to die for them
~quotes on Freedom by Vaclav Havel

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.
~sayings on Death by H.L. Mencken

Professional wrestling’s most mysterious hold is on its audience.
~quotations on Sports by Luke Neely, 1953

And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
~inspirational sayings for teachers by Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed

Boards, Boards, Boards
~saying about teachers by Knute Rockne

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
~quote about Chakras by Confucius

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
~quotes on Education by G.K. Chesterton

I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.
~sayings on Trust by Troy Kennedy-Martin, The Italian Job

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
~quotations on Honesty by Winston Churchill

Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
~saying about sports by Nikolay Gogol

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
~quote about Cats by Joseph Wood Krutch

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.
~quotes on Math by Hermann Hankel

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it
~sayings on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

Hold’em – like life itself – has its defining moment. It’s the flop. When you see the flop, you’re looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.
~quotations on Poker by Lou Krieger

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
~sports motivational sayings by Robert Frost

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to pick it up
~saying about sports by Tommy Bolt

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
~quote about Books Reading by Plato

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
~quotes on Truth by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
~sayings on Labor by Martin H. Fischer

It’s better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.
~quotations on Safety by Author Unknown

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
~sports motivational sayings by Author Unknown

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
~saying about sports by John Powell

My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated
~sayings on Living by Tupac Shakur

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
~quotations on Virtue by Henry David Thoreau

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
~sports motivational sayings by Author Unknown

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
~saying about sports by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
~quote about Success by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.
~quotes on Books Reading by François Mauriac

Strange…a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!
~sayings on Religion by Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
~quotations on Tennis by Russell Lynes

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
~sports motivational sayings by Marv Levy

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
~saying about sports by Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away
~quote about Motivation by Unknown

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
~quotes on Gifts by Seneca

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome
~sayings on Death by Isaac Asimov

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
~quote about History by George Macaulay Trevelyan

Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head.
~quotes on Homosexuality by Graffiti

He is able who thinks he is able.
~sayings on Self Improvement by Buddha

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
~quotations on Sisters by Benjamin Disraeli

One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth
~new friendship quotes by Voltaire

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there
~saying about new friendship by Clarence W. Hall

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.
~quote about Action by Vance Havner

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~quotes on Happiness by Joseph Addison

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love
~sayings on Valentine’s Day by Margaret Atwood

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring
~quotations on Groundhog Day by George Santayana

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
~new friendship quotes by H.G. Wells, 1935

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
~saying about new friendship by Dutch Proverb

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness.
~quote about Caffeine by Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
~quotations on Wisdom by Doug Larson

Hire character. Train skill.
~new friendship quotes by Peter Schutz

Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, &34;What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? Instead, they demand: How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
~saying about new friendship by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French

The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness.
~quote about Idleness by Walter Gaston Shotwell

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~quotes on Books Reading by J. Swartz

Love is friendship set on fire.
~sayings on Famous Saying by Jeremy Taylor

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
~quotations on Humankind by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
~new friendship quotes by Helen Rowland

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.
~saying about new friendship by Douglas MacArthur

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~quote about Helping by Mahatma Ghandi

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~quotes on Determination by

There is something about the presence of a cat… that seems to take the bite out of being alone.
~sayings on Cats by Louis J. Camuti

Don’t wait for people to be kind, show them how.
~quotations on Attitude by Unknown

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.
~new friendship quotes by Isaac Asimov

Enthusiasm…the sustaining power of all great action.
~Author : Samuel Smiles Inspirational Sayings

Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.
~Author : Kurt Herbert Alder Nice Quotes

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
~Author : Erik H Erikson Great Sayings

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
~Author : Plato Meaningful Sayings

Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.
~Author : Ralph Kiner Wise Quotes

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
~Author : Zsa Zsa Gabor Motivational Sayings

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
~Author : Leon Blum Famous Quotes

I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual I’m too abstract I think too much.
~Author : Newt Gingrich Inspirational Sayings

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
~Author : Douglas Noel Adams Nice Quotes

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.
~Author : Quentin Great Sayings

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
~Author : Aristotle Meaningful Sayings

An act against my will is not my act.
~Author : Unknown Wise Quotes

I was coming home from kindergarten–well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
~Author : Ellen DeGeneres Motivational Sayings

Dig the well before you are thirsty.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Famous Quotes

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
~Author : Turkish Proverb Inspirational Sayings

The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.
~Author : Zeno Nice Quotes

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
~Author : Sallust Great Sayings

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
~Author : Malcolm S Forbes Meaningful Sayings

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.
~Author : Christian Longe Wise Quotes

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
~Author : Jennie Jerome Churchill Motivational Sayings

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
~Author : Christopher Morley Famous Quotes

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
~Author : Albert Einstein Inspirational Sayings

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
~Author : Christopher Morley Nice Quotes

One’s first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
~Author : Clifton Fadiman Great Sayings

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Meaningful Sayings

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
~Author : Brendan Francis Wise Quotes

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
~Author : William Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Inspirational Sayings

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
~Author : Jesse Stuart Nice Quotes

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.
~Author : Damon Runyon Great Sayings

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Meaningful Sayings

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
~Author : John F Kennedy Inaugural address January 20 1961 Wise Quotes

Old programmers never die. They just can’t C as well.
~Author : Anon Motivational Sayings

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~Author : Voltaire Famous Quotes

Handguns are a public-health problem.
~Author : Josh Sugarmann Inspirational Sayings

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
~Author : Confucius Nice Quotes

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
~Author : Terry Pratchett Wyrd Sisters Great Sayings

Enquire not what boils in another’s pot.
~Author : Thomas Fuller Meaningful Sayings

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.
~Author : Leonard Nimoy Wise Quotes

Life is wasted on the living.
~Author : Douglas Adams Motivational Sayings

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes…and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
~Author : Roosevelt Eleanor Famous Quotes

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
~Author : Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven Inspirational Sayings

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Nice Quotes

Automatic simply means that you can’t repair it yourself.
~Author : Frank Capra Great Sayings

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
~Author : Joseph Addison Meaningful Sayings

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
~Author : Booker T Washington Wise Quotes

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
~Author : Gail Famous Quotes

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
~Author : Rachel Blanchard Inspirational Sayings

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
~Author : Lao Tzu Nice Quotes

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Great Sayings

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
~Author : Roger Rosenblatt Meaningful Sayings

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
~Author : George Orwell Wise Quotes

What is the sound of one hand clapping
~Author : Confucius Motivational Sayings