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Moorish Proverb Famous Quotes

August 19, 2009

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
~Author : Moorish Proverb Famous Quotes

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine.
~Author : Richard Jefferies Inspirational Sayings

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~Author : Author Unknown Nice Quotes

“Know thyself,” said the old philosopher, “improve thyself,” saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
~Author : Edward BulwerLytton Great Sayings

Of course the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you – if you don’t play, you can’t win.
~Author : Robert A Heinlein Meaningful Sayings

Justice is the truth in action.
~Author : Jeseph Joubert Wise Quotes

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years.
~Author : Anthony Powell Motivational Sayings

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
~Author : James Bridie Famous Quotes

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
~Author : Will Rogers Inspirational Sayings

Kenny Ausubel Famous Quotes

July 9, 2009

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
~Author : Kenny Ausubel Famous Quotes

There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.
~Author : Albert Einstein Inspirational Sayings

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.
~Author : Author Unknown Nice Quotes

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
~Author : Cicero De Amicitia Great Sayings

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
~Author : Greville Meaningful Sayings

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
~Author : Francis Bacon Wise Quotes

Is sex dirty? Only if you do it right.
~Author : Woody Allen Motivational Sayings

If dogs could talk, perhaps we’d find it just as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
~Author : Diana Black Famous Quotes

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
~Author : Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Inspirational Sayings

Reality is only just a word.
~Author : Harry Chapin Nice Quotes

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~Author : H L Mencken Great Sayings

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~Author : Mark Twain Meaningful Sayings

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
~Author : Leonardo DaVinci Wise Quotes

Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
~Author : Marguerite de Valois Motivational Sayings

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
~Author : Margaret Hilda Thatcher Inspirational Sayings

Spring is when life’s alive in everything.
~Author : Christina G Rossetti Nice Quotes

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
~Author : W B Yeats Great Sayings

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
~Author : Washington Irving Meaningful Sayings

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
~Author : Paul Dirac Wise Quotes

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
~Author : Spike Milligan from The Goon Show Motivational Sayings

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
~Author : Herbert Hoover Famous Quotes

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
~Author : Richard Feynman Inspirational Sayings

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Nice Quotes

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
~Author : Mark Twain Great Sayings

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
~Author : Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Meaningful Sayings

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
~Author : Thomas Carlyle Wise Quotes

Your mind must always go, even while you’re shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Motivational Sayings

Wise Quotes and Sayings

June 7, 2009

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you
~quote about Age by Bennett Cerf

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~quotes on America by Elmer Davis

Instead of counting your days, make your days count.
~sayings on Helping by Author Unknown

Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.
~quotations on Walking by Author Unknown

Child rearing myth #1: Labor ends when the baby is born
~famous irish saying by Unknown

To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
~saying about irish by C.G. Jung

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others
~quote about Love Quotes by Francois Mauriac

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
~quotes on Knowledge by Carl G. Jung

Words signify man’s refusal to accept the world as it is.
~sayings on Language by Walter Kaufmann

It’s just life… wake up and smell the thorns.
~quotations on Curmudgeons by From the movie Meet Joe Black

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
~famous irish saying by H.L. Mencken

Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching – mostly watching on television – we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.
~saying about irish by Roger Angell

Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas.
~quote about Food by Roseanne, Don’t Make Me Over, May 1992, spoken by character Dan Conner