oscar wilde Quoted in Ellmann Famous Quotes

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
~Author : oscar wilde Quoted in Ellmann Famous Quotes

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Sayings

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cakeThis is commonly misquotes as You can’t have you’re cake and eat it, too.
~Author : John Heywood Nice Quotes

See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way…
~Author : Exodus 2320 Bible Great Sayings

In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
~Author : Jane Haddam Meaningful Sayings

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
~Author : Leighton Wise Quotes

I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they don’t just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Motivational Sayings

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
~Author : Baruch Spinoza Famous Quotes
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
~Author : Sigmund Freud Inspirational Sayings

Moorish Proverb Famous Quotes

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

A few old wise sayings

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
~quotes on Society by Whitney Moore, Jr.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
~sayings on Cats by Stephen Baker

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch
~quotations on Retirement by R.C. Sherriff

You know it’s time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves.
~inspirational business quote by Quoted in The Cockle Bur

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
~saying about business by Simone Signoret

A man’s finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a noble cause and sits down exhausted.
~quote about Attitude by

History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
~quotes on History by James Joyce, Ulysses

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger
~sayings on Baseball by Jim Bouton

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness
~quotations on Adversity by André Gide, L’immoraliste

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
~inspirational business quote by Stuart Chase

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
~saying about business by Henry David Thoreau

History… is, indeed, little more than the register of the ‘crimes, follies, and misfortunes’ of mankind. But what experience and history teach is this – that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
~quote about History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History, Introduction, 1807

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
~quotes on Conformity by Bill Veeck