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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

May 19, 2009

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Famous Quotes

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi An Autobiography page 446 Inspirational Sayings

Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
~Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nice Quotes

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
~Author : Mark Twain Great Sayings

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Author : Emily Dickinson Meaningful Sayings

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
~Author : Washington Irving Wise Quotes

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
~Author : Gene Wolfe Motivational Sayings

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Famous Quotes

Even though work stops, expenses run on.
~Author : Cato the Elder On Agriculture Inspirational Sayings

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~Author : George Santayana Nice Quotes

Man has responsibility, not power.
~Author : Tuscarora proverb Great Sayings

A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
~Author : John Tillotson Meaningful Sayings

A storm broke loose in my mind.
~Author : Albert Einstein Wise Quotes

Half this game is 90% mental.
~Author : Danny Ozark manager of the Phillies Motivational Sayings

The White House is the finest prison in the world.
~Author : Harry S Truman Famous Quotes

In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
~Author : George Orwell Inspirational Sayings

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
~Author : Aesop The Ant and the Grasshopper Nice Quotes

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
~Author : Edward George Earle Lytton BulwerLytton Great Sayings

But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok’d souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
~Author : Matthew Arnold Meaningful Sayings

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
~Author : John Adams Wise Quotes

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone’s eyes.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Famous Quotes

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Inspirational Sayings

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
~Author : Douglas Adams Nice Quotes

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
~Author : Hazrat Ali IbneAbi Talib NahjulBalagha Sermons and sayings Compilation Great Sayings

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
~Author : Gioacchino Rosini Meaningful Sayings

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Wise Quotes

To the degree we’re not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
~Author : Peter McWilliams Motivational Sayings

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.

May 16, 2009

Things don’t fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
~Author : Lucille Clifton Famous Quotes

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
~Author : Eric Gibson Inspirational Sayings

Youth isn’t always all it’s touted to be.
~Author : Lawana Blackwell Nice Quotes

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
~Author : Charles Caleb Colton Great Sayings

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~Author : Martin Luther King Meaningful Sayings

I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
~Author : Malcom X My counselor Mrs Ross Wise Quotes

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
~Author : Herschel Walker Motivational Sayings

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Famous Quotes

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Inspirational Sayings

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Nice Quotes

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
~Author : Thomas Carlyle Great Sayings

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
~Author : Martin Luther Meaningful Sayings

This isn’t right. This isn’t even wrong.
~Author : Wolfgang Pauli Wise Quotes

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.
~Author : William Arthur Ward Motivational Sayings

Ricky I don’t know why we don’t get a drink … sittin inside this place. Bobby I promised Chloe we’d come here Ricky She doesn’t even know where the hell she is, Bob. She’d have more fun if we were at Bodners. She could play the triva game like she likes it, or the little racing game thing she does. Bobby She’s a little girl, little girl’s don’t like to go to bars. Ricky We had fun, we went to bars when we were kids … met all the different people, right …remember Slimmy
~Author : Made Famous Quotes

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
~Author : Virgil Inspirational Sayings

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
~Author : Dogen Nice Quotes

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
~Author : Bill Watterson Great Sayings

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
~Author : Aesop Meaningful Sayings

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
~Author : Yiddish Proverb Wise Quotes

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is not greater disaster than greed.
~Author : Laotzu The Way of Laotzu Motivational Sayings

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
~Author : George Stanley McGovern Famous Quotes

Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
~Author : Dan Quayle 81189 Inspirational Sayings

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet.
~Author : Bruce Sterling Nice Quotes

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn’t they’d be married too.
~Author : Henry Louis Mencken Great Sayings

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love – this is an old rule.
~Author : The Dhammapada Meaningful Sayings

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Wise Quotes

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Motivational Sayings