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The classes that wash most are those that work least.
~Author : GK Chesterton Famous Quotes

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
~Author : F Scott Fitzgerald The CrackUp 1936 Inspirational Sayings

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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
~Author : Confucius Nice Quotes

The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
~Author : Rita Mae Brown Starting From Scratch 1988 Meaningful Sayings

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.
~Author : Roger King Wise Quotes

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
~Author : Larry Hardiman Motivational Sayings

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
~Author : Voltaire Famous Quotes

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self... Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
~Author : Vash Young Inspirational Sayings

All my possessions for a moment of time.
~Author : Queen Elizabeth I Nice Quotes

The treacherous are ever distrustful.
~Author : J R R Tolkien Gandalf on Saruman The Two Towers Great Sayings

Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane
~Author : Airplane Meaningful Sayings

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
~Author : Max Gluckman Wise Quotes

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
~Author : F Scott Motivational Sayings

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.
~Author : Robert D Kaplan Warrior Politics Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos Book Famous Quotes

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
~Author : Janos Arnay Inspirational Sayings

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know.
~Author : Cowper Nice Quotes

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
~Author : Albert Einstein Great Sayings

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
~Author : Denis Diderot Meaningful Sayings

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought---particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
~Author : Woody Allen Wise Quotes

Many things are lost for want of asking.
~Author : English Proverb Motivational Sayings

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
~Author : John F Kennedy Famous Quotes

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.
~Author : Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks Inspirational Sayings

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
~Author : Dr Karl Menninger Nice Quotes

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
~Author : Menander Great Sayings

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
~Author : Kurt Vonnegut Hocus Pocus Meaningful Sayings

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
~Author : Albert Einstein Wise Quotes

One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
~Author : Sigmund Freud Motivational Sayings

Dave Parnas Meaningful Sayings

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
~Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus 1922 Famous Quotes

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
~Author : Cicero Inspirational Sayings

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
~Author : Ann Landers Nice Quotes

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
~Author : William Dement Great Sayings

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
~Author : Dave Parnas Meaningful Sayings

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
~Author : Suntzu Wise Quotes

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
~Author : Salvador Dali Motivational Sayings

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
~Author : Emil Brunner Famous Quotes

Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'.
~Author : Keven Kwaku Inspirational Sayings

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
~Author : Sacha Guitry Nice Quotes

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
~Author : Antoine De SaintExupery Great Sayings

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
~Author : Gustave Flaubert Meaningful Sayings

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
~Author : Sam Keen Wise Quotes

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
~Author : Deepak Chopra The Return of Merlin Motivational Sayings

There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will.
~Author : Grenville Kleiser Famous Quotes

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
~Author : Sir Richard Steele Inspirational Sayings

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

He hath eaten me out of house and home.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
~Author : Oren Arnold Meaningful Sayings

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
~Author : Pythagoras Wise Quotes

If you want something said, ask a man if you want something done, ask a woman.
~Author : Margaret Hilda Thatcher Motivational Sayings

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
~Author : Chuangtzu Famous Quotes

[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Inspirational Sayings

A God all mercy is a God unjust.
~Author : Edward Young Nice Quotes

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
~Author : Epicurus from Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers Great Sayings

A hit, a very palpable hit.
~Author : William Shakespeare Hamlet Act 5 scene 2 Meaningful Sayings

Life is the childhood of our immortality.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wise Quotes

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true
~Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning Motivational Sayings

Alan Alexander Milne Meaningful Sayings

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
~Author : Cicero Famous Quotes

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
~Author : Max Weber Inspirational Sayings

Music is the soul of language.
~Author : Max Heindel Nice Quotes

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
~Author : African Proverb Great Sayings

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus 1 day, so I never have to go through a day without you.
~Author : Alan Alexander Milne Meaningful Sayings

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
~Author : August Strindberg Wise Quotes

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
~Author : Jan L A van de Snepscheut Motivational Sayings

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.
~Author : Wil Wheaton Famous Quotes

Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.
~Author : Emanuel Swedenborg From the book New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 155 Inspirational Sayings

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
~Author : Stanilaus Nice Quotes

Courage in danger is half the battle.
~Author : Titus Plautus Great Sayings

The reason I dont play ballads? Because I love to play them.
~Author : Miles Davis Film The Miles Davis Story Meaningful Sayings

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
~Author : HL Mencken Wise Quotes

A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.
~Author : Cuban Proverb Motivational Sayings

My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'
~Author : Dexter Scott King Famous Quotes

Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.
~Author : Sara Teasdale Inspirational Sayings

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
~Author : Victor Borge Nice Quotes

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Great Sayings

Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
~Author : Buddha The Dharmapada Meaningful Sayings

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
~Author : Katharine Butler Hathaway Wise Quotes

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American.
~Author : 16 Idaho Law Review 407 420 1980 Motivational Sayings

Better late than never.
~Author : Titus Livius History Famous Quotes

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Sayings

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
~Author : Marie Henri Beyle Nice Quotes

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson Great Sayings

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
~Author : Robert Francis Kennedy Wise Quotes

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
~Author : Oscar Levant Motivational Sayings

African Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Famous Quotes

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.
~Author : Virginia Woolf Inspirational Sayings

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
~Author : Henry Louis Mencken Nice Quotes

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists Great Sayings

When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
~Author : African Proverb Meaningful Sayings

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Wise Quotes

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
~Author : Elain Heffner O Magazine May 2003 Motivational Sayings

In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.
~Author : Elzear Blaze La Vie Militaire Famous Quotes

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
~Author : Dorothy C Fisher Inspirational Sayings

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Nice Quotes

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Great Sayings

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
~Author : Julius Caesar attributed Meaningful Sayings

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
~Author : Edward Thorndike Wise Quotes

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.
~Author : Albert Einstein Motivational Sayings

Act as if were impossible to fail.
~Author : Dorothea Broude Famous Quotes

Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading.
~Author : Dave Storer Inspirational Sayings

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
~Author : Carl Lotus Becker Nice Quotes

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Great Sayings

Like dealing with Dad-all give and no take. (On negotiating with Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev)
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Meaningful Sayings

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
~Author : Jean Paul Richter Wise Quotes

If I come back as a horsefly, I think my favorite thing would be to land on someone's lip. Even if they smash you, ick, you're all over their lip
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Motivational Sayings

We only part to meet again.
~Author : John Gay Famous Quotes

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
~Author : Roy Moody Inspirational Sayings

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
~Author : Alfred Hitchcock Nice Quotes

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.
~Author : Georges Clemenceau Great Sayings

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~Author : Victor Hugo Meaningful Sayings

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
~Author : Malcolm Forbes Wise Quotes

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson SelfReliance Motivational Sayings

Ethel Watts Mumford Nice Quotes

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.
~Author : Rabindranath Tagore Famous Quotes

Publish and be damned!
~Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Attributed when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his Inspirational Sayings

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
~Author : Ethel Watts Mumford Nice Quotes

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
~Author : Charles Steinmetz Great Sayings

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~Author : James Arthur Baldwin Wise Quotes

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
~Author : Sophocles Trachiniae Motivational Sayings

Rule three hundred of obscure leadership if it's your idea, you get to implement it.
~Author : Leland Exton Modesitt Jr Famous Quotes

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
~Author : Wystan Hugh Auden Inspirational Sayings

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
~Author : Richard Feynman Letter to Armando Garcia J December 11 1985 Nice Quotes

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Great Sayings

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
~Author : Confucius Meaningful Sayings

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
~Author : Zora Neale Hurston Wise Quotes

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
~Author : Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Motivational Sayings

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Famous Quotes

One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids.
~Author : Barbara Hall Inspirational Sayings

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Nice Quotes

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Great Sayings

There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.
~Author : Sinclair Lewis Meaningful Sayings

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
~Author : Victor Hugo Wise Quotes

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
~Author : Charles De Gaulle Motivational Sayings

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
~Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne Famous Quotes

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Sayings

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Nice Quotes

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
~Author : Charles Caleb Colton Meaningful Sayings

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
~Author : The Divine Pymander Wise Quotes

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
~Author : Thomas Fuller Motivational Sayings