B B King Famous Quotes

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin’, too.
~Author : B B King Famous Quotes

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

 

What are some old sayings

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Famous Quotes

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

 

Witty Wise Sayings

Most tax revisions didn’t improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Famous Quotes

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
~Author : R Buckminster Fuller Inspirational Sayings

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
~Author : Clare Booth Luce Nice Quotes

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Great Sayings

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~Author : Douglas Noel Adams Meaningful Sayings

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.
~Author : Shunryu Suzuki Wise Quotes

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
~Author : John Milton Motivational Sayings

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
~Author : Clarence Darrow Famous Quotes

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
~Author : Dan Quayle Inspirational Sayings

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
~Author : Ramakrishna Nice Quotes

This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one…
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Great Sayings

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Meaningful Sayings

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
~Author : George T Hewitt Wise Quotes

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
~Author : Mary Wilson Little Motivational Sayings

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
~Author : Samuel C Florman Famous Quotes

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
~Author : Constantine Peter Cavafy Inspirational Sayings

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Nice Quotes

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~Author : ee cummings Great Sayings

Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
~Author : Isaac Asimov Meaningful Sayings

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
~Author : Virgil Wise Quotes

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
~Author : Lewis Blaine Hershey Motivational Sayings

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
~Author : Miguel Cerbantes Famous Quotes

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
~Author : Irma Kurtz Cosmopolitan Magazine September 2003 Inspirational Sayings

Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
~Author : Alan Alda GQ Summer 1980 Nice Quotes

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
~Author : Jiddu Krishnamurti Great Sayings

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Vendeta for the Western World 1945 Meaningful Sayings

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
~Author : Mark Twain Wise Quotes

Ask advice only of your equals.
~Author : Danish Proverb Motivational Sayings

 

The world belongs to the energetic.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
~Author : Menander Famous Quotes

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

The world belongs to the energetic.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Great Sayings

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
~Author : William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Wise Quotes

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
~Author : Charles Horton Cooley Motivational Sayings

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
~Author : Charles Caleb Colton Famous Quotes

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
~Author : Richard M Nixon Inspirational Sayings

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
~Author : Blaise Pascal Nice Quotes

There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
~Author : Chaucer Great Sayings

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
~Author : J PetitSenn Meaningful Sayings

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Wise Quotes

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
~Author : Brendan Francis Motivational Sayings

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.
~Author : Woody Allen Famous Quotes

When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
~Author : A Alvarez Inspirational Sayings

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions… that laws were like cobwebs, –for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
~Author : Laertius Diogenes Nice Quotes

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
~Author : Lao Tzu Great Sayings

Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight.
~Author : Bob Marley Meaningful Sayings

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
~Author : Charles Peguy Wise Quotes

Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
~Author : Kathleen Norris Motivational Sayings

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
~Author : Henry Miller Famous Quotes

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
~Author : James Baldwin Inspirational Sayings

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
~Author : Margaret Mitchell Nice Quotes

The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.
~Author : Dugald Stewart Great Sayings

Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
~Author : WL George Meaningful Sayings

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Wise Quotes

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
~Author : John Locke Motivational Sayings

 

Trent I’m making Gretzky’s head bleed for super-fan 99 over here

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
~Author : Timothy Leary Famous Quotes

Trent I’m making Gretzky’s head bleed for super-fan 99 over here
~Author : Swingers Inspirational Sayings

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
~Author : Niels Bohr Nice Quotes

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.
~Author : John Kerry speech in New York August 24 2004 Great Sayings

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
~Author : Booth Tarkington Meaningful Sayings

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think.
~Author : Nadine Gordimer Wise Quotes

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
~Author : Napoleon Bonaparte Motivational Sayings

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
~Author : Storm Jameson Famous Quotes

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned….That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
~Author : Walter Lippmann Inspirational Sayings

I once said, “We will bury you,” and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
~Author : Nikita Khrushchev Speech in Yugoslavia Aug 24 1963 Nice Quotes

I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.
~Author : Dorothy L Sayers Great Sayings

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Meaningful Sayings

Those who can command themselves command others.
~Author : William Hazlitt Wise Quotes

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Motivational Sayings

America is still the best country for the common man — white or black … if he can’t make it here he won’t make it anywhere else.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Famous Quotes

Treat the other man’s faith gently it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
~Author : Henry S Haskins Inspirational Sayings

Usenet isn’t a right. It’s a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw.
~Author : Computer Museum Nice Quotes

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.
~Author : Selma Lagerloef Great Sayings

Never write a letter while you are angry.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
~Author : Wystan Hugh Auden Wise Quotes

Lost time is never found again.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Motivational Sayings

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
~Author : Andy Warhol Famous Quotes

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Inspirational Sayings

This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Nice Quotes

Those who hear not the music. . . think the dancers mad.
~Author : Unknown Great Sayings

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
~Author : Robert Francis Kennedy Meaningful Sayings

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
~Author : Alfred North Whitehead Wise Quotes

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
~Author : Arthur C Clarke Motivational Sayings

 

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If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.
~Author : Unknown Famous Quotes

…probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
~Author : John F Kennedy Inspirational Sayings

Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say ‘I never meant any harm.’
~Author : Danielle Donoho Nice Quotes

Nothing fails like success.
~Author : Gerald Nachman Great Sayings

Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
~Author : Lewis B Frumkes Wise Quotes

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
~Author : Van Wyck Brooks Motivational Sayings

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Sayings

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
~Author : Blaise Pascal Nice Quotes

God has always been hard on the poor.
~Author : JeanPaul Marat Great Sayings

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Meaningful Sayings

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth’s almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
~Author : Elizabeth Bowen Wise Quotes

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
~Author : Michel de Montaigne Motivational Sayings

My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.
~Author : Norman Lewis Smith Famous Quotes

Jealousy – that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Inspirational Sayings

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Nice Quotes

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
~Author : Cory Doctorow Someone Comes To Town Someone Leaves Town 2005 Great Sayings

Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.
~Author : Shirley MacLaine Meaningful Sayings

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Wise Quotes

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
~Author : David Assael Motivational Sayings

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
~Author : Albert Einstein Famous Quotes

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science section 191 Nice Quotes

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
~Author : HL Mencken Great Sayings

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
~Author : Latin Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
~Author : HL Mencken Wise Quotes

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
~Author : W C Fields Motivational Sayings