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Wise Quotes

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:09:04 +0000

Action is life, stagnation, death. Nature’s law: use it or lost it.
~sayings on Growth by

We all need encouragement. We can live without it just as a young tree can live without fertilizer, but unless we receive that warm nurturing, we never reach our full potential, and like the tree left to itself, we seldom bear fruit.
~quotations on Emotions by Florence Littauer

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
~inspirational spiritual quote by Newt Gingrich

Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
~saying about spiritual by Oscar Wilde

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
~quote about Prejudice by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Thousands with talent are drifters. Genius will not. Un rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence alone solves all the world’s big problems.
~quotes on Success by

How far that little candle throws his beams!So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~sayings on Sweetest Day by William Shakespeare

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
~quotations on Medical by Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
~inspirational spiritual quote by Nan Fairbrother

Wise Sayings

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:08:29 +0000

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~sayings on Carpe Diem by Mark Twain

One day while Groucho Marx was working in his garden (dressed in well-worn gardening attire), a wealthy woman pulled up in a Cadillac and endeavored to persuade the gardener to come and work for her. How much does the lady of the house pay you? she asked. Oh, I don’t get paid in dollars, Groucho replied, glancing up. The lady of the house just a lets me sleep with her
~quotations on Comedy by Groucho Marx

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
~inspirational spiritual quote by Aristotle, Politics

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
~saying about spiritual by Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

The founding fathers… provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
~quote about Education by John Updike, The Centaur, 1963

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
~quotes on Mothers by Abraham Lincoln

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
~sayings on Faith by Robert Collyer

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
~quotations on Imagination by Anna Freud

Famous Sayings

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:07:45 +0000

In time of test, family is best.
~quotations on Family by Burmese Proverb

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
~funny confucius saying by G.K. Chesterton

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
~saying about confucius by Author Unknown

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
~quote about Humankind by T.H. Huxley, Evolution and Ethics, 1893

Friendship is like pissing your pants. Everyone can see it but only you can feel it’s warmth.
~quotes on Attitude by

There is this to be said for walking: It’s the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.
~sayings on Walking by Edward Abbey

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
~quotations on Miscellaneous by La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

Famous Quotes

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:07:21 +0000

The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
~saying about confucius by Charles Towne

You know you’re from Arizona when you drive two miles around a parking lot looking for a shady place – even in the dead of winter.
~quote about Arizona by Local Saying

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~quotes on Generations by D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.
~sayings on Golf by Robert Lynd

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
~quotations on Famous Saying by Seymour Cray

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
~funny confucius saying by Dwight D. Eisenhower

You give but little when you give of your possessionsIt is when you give of yourself that you truly give
~saying about confucius by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

famous motivational quotes

ramonsanjiz — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:12:30 +0000

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it
~sayings on Children by Harry S. Truman

Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either
~quotations on Books by Gore Vidal

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
~inspirational education quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

It’s so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
~saying about education by J.C. Snead, on his putting

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
~quote about Attitude by Emory Austin

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities
~quotes on Movie by James Lapine

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
~sayings on Marriage by Virginie des Rieux, Epigrams

The best motivational quotes

ramonsanjiz — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:11:26 +0000

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
~quotations on Responsibility by Albert Ellis

Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.
~inspirational education quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

it takes a minute to have a crush on some one,a day to like ‘em,and a week to love’em.But it takes a life time to forget them.
~saying about education by sara

When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trail after trial until it comes.
~quote about Goals by Thomas Edison

There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can’t tell the truth without lying.
~quotes on Exaggeration by Josh Billings

Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.
~sayings on Golf by Princess Anne of Great Britain

Inspirational quotes – motivational quotes

ramonsanjiz — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:10:36 +0000

The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you’re gone
~weight loss inspirational quote by Fred Small

The sweetest sounds to mortals given, Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~saying about weight loss by William Goldsmith Brown

We didn’t all come over on the same ship, but we’re all in the same boat.
~quote about Equality Difference by Bernard M. Baruch

Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags,Fit company for mad adventurers.
~quotes on Halloween by Philip Freneau

Drawing on my find command of language, I said nothing.
~sayings on Speaking by Robert Charles Benchley

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
~quotations on Reality by Albert Einstein

When a guy goes to a hooker, he’s not paying her for sex, he’s paying her to leave.
~weight loss inspirational quote by Author Unknown

A collection of inspirational quotes on topics including success

ramonsanjiz — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:09:30 +0000

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework
~quotations on Teacher Appreciation by Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”

Waste is a tax on the whole people.
~weight loss inspirational quote by Albert W. Atwood

As the poet said, Only God can make a tree – probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
~saying about weight loss by Woody Allen

If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon.
~quote about Experience. by Doug Rader

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
~quotes on Environment by Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left
~sayings on Birthdays by Jerry M. Wright

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
~quotations on Guests by Russian Proverb

Swedish Proverb Nice Quotes

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:56:31 +0000

Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
~Author : Swedish Proverb Nice Quotes

Courage is grace under pressure.
~Author : Ernest Hemmingway Great Sayings

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.
~Author : Anonymous Meaningful Sayings

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
~Author : John Junor Wise Quotes

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.
~Author : Junius Motivational Sayings

You can always tell a real friend when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
~Author : Laurence J Peter Famous Quotes

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.
~Author : Ray Simard Inspirational Sayings

Nora Joyce to her husband James Wise Quotes

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:55:52 +0000

Why dont you write books people can read
~Author : Nora Joyce to her husband James Wise Quotes

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.
~Author : Hilaire Belloc Motivational Sayings

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
~Author : Orson Welles Famous Quotes

The secret of being boring is to tell everything.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Inspirational Sayings

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.
~Author : Theodore Isaac Rubin Nice Quotes

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
~Author : Tao te Ching 48 LaoTzu Great Sayings