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Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
~famous irish saying by Author Unknown

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
~saying about irish by Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 1953

We plan, we toil, we suffer – in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
~quote about Food by J.B. Priestly

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.
~quotes on Marriage by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas
~sayings on Christmas by Kin Hubbard

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy
~quotations on Sympathy by Author Unknown

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
~famous irish saying by D.H. Lawrence, Pornography and Obscenity

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law.
~saying about irish by H.G. Wells, Bealby, 1915

When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
~quote about Self by Robert Browning, Bishop Blougram’s Apology

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand
~quotes on Love by Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts – for support rather than for illumination.
~sayings on Statistics by Andrew Lang

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
~quotations on Tea by Sydney Smith

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
~famous irish saying by Thomas Foxwell Buxton

Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
~saying about irish by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.
~Author : Anthony Norvell Famous Quotes

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
~Author : David Grayson Inspirational Sayings

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Nice Quotes

Live the questions.
~Author : Rainer Maria Rilke Great Sayings

The whole world is a man’s birthplace.
~Author : Caecilius Statius Meaningful Sayings

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
~Author : Saint Augustine Wise Quotes

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
~Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Motivational Sayings

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
~Author : Mark Twain Famous Quotes

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
~Author : Rabbi Harold Kushner Inspirational Sayings

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Nice Quotes

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
~Author : Douglas Adams Great Sayings

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
~Author : Sir Harold George Nicolson Meaningful Sayings

I never know how much of what I say is true.
~Author : Bette Midler Wise Quotes

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
~Author : Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Motivational Sayings

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
~Author : H L Mencken Famous Quotes

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.
~Author : Ogden Nash Inspirational Sayings

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,
Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal,
Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling;
The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
~Author : George Du Maurier Nice Quotes

Truth is subject to too much analysis.
~Author : Frank Herbert Dune Great Sayings

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values
~Author : Alan Greenspan Meaningful Sayings

With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
~Author : William Lloyd Garrison Wise Quotes

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
~Author : Henry Clay Motivational Sayings

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.
~Author : Cathy Ladman Famous Quotes

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
~Author : Flavius Josephus Inspirational Sayings

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don?t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
~Author : L Ron Hubbard Book Child Dianetics Nice Quotes

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don’t know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it’s always struck me as a hopeful thing.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Great Sayings

Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.
~Author : Swedish Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
~Author : Robert Henri Wise Quotes

It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.
~Author : Lewis Carroll Motivational Sayings