Marya Mannes Famous Quotes

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
~Author : Marya Mannes Famous Quotes

Real programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
~Author : Anon Inspirational Sayings

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first … Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Nice Quotes

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.
~Author : Seneca Great Sayings

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
~Author : Herbert Hoover Meaningful Sayings

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone
~Author : James Thurber Wise Quotes

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Motivational Sayings

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
~Author : Marya Mannes Famous Quotes

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
~Author : Hermann Hesse Inspirational Sayings

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
~Author : Francois De La Rochefoucauld Nice Quotes

I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself.
~Author : Anon Great Sayings

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
~Author : C S Lewis Meaningful Sayings

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
~Author : Charles Augustin SainteBeauve Wise Quotes

You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
~Author : Heraclitus Motivational Sayings

For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
~Author : Quentin Crisp Famous Quotes

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~Author : Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl 1952 Inspirational Sayings

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
~Author : Dom Helder Camara Nice Quotes

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Sayings

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
~Author : Adlai Ewing Stevenson Meaningful Sayings

A hit, a very palpable hit.
~Author : William Shakespeare Wise Quotes

To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of ‘for’ and ‘against’ into one organic unity which is without distinctions.
~Author : Bruce Lee Motivational Sayings

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
~Author : Rosalind Russell Famous Quotes

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
~Author : Carl Friedrich Gauss Inspirational Sayings

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
~Author : Ronald David Laing Nice Quotes

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
~Author : James Allen Great Sayings

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
~Author : Philip Guedalla Meaningful Sayings

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current… Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
~Author : Albert Pike Wise Quotes

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory an empty gin bottle.
~Author : Erma Bombeck Motivational Sayings

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
~Author : Peter Drucker Famous Quotes

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.
~Author : Wayne Dyer Inspirational Sayings

[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.
~Author : Dan Quayle 41191 reported in Esquire 892 Nice Quotes

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character
~Author : Grenville Kleiser Great Sayings

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
~Author : William Blake Meaningful Sayings

A child’s hand in yours — what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
~Author : Marjorie Holmes Wise Quotes

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
~Author : Arab Proverb Motivational Sayings

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
~Author : Demosthenes Famous Quotes

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
~Author : Ian Fleming Inspirational Sayings

Sure i’m for helping the elderly. I’m going to be old myself some day.
~Author : Lillian Carter Nice Quotes

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
~Author : Terry Pratchett Small Gods 1992 Great Sayings

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
~Author : Maxims of Ptahhotep Meaningful Sayings

A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing.
~Author : Joe Moore Wise Quotes

Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone’s disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.
~Author : Norman Vincent Peale Motivational Sayings

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
~Author : David Viscott Famous Quotes

The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.
~Author : Dan Cook Inspirational Sayings

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
~Author : Mark Twain Nice Quotes

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
~Author : James Barrie Great Sayings

…for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
~Author : J R R Tolkien Meaningful Sayings

A will finds a way.
~Author : Orison Swett Marden Wise Quotes

For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.
~Author : Grantland Rice Alumunus Football Only the Brave and Other Poems p 144 1941 Motivational Sayings

Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals.
~Author : Will Rogers Famous Quotes

Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination?
~Author : Mark Twain The Mysterious Stranger Inspirational Sayings

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.
~Author : Confucius Nice Quotes

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Sayings

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
~Author : Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine Meaningful Sayings

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
~Author : Confucius Analects XIV12 Wise Quotes

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
~Author : Martin Mull Motivational Sayings

The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence.

One sometimes feels a guest of one’s time and not a member of its household.
~Author : George Frost Kennan Famous Quotes

The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence.
~Author : James Waddell Alexander II Inspirational Sayings

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or need second, a decision to change-to fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change-the willful act of making the change Doing Something.
~Author : Dr Nice Quotes

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.
~Author : William Shakespeare Othello Act 1 scene 1 Great Sayings

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
~Author : Tallulah Bankhead Meaningful Sayings

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
~Author : Gloria Swanson Wise Quotes

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
~Author : Walt Crawford Kelly Motivational Sayings

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
~Author : Thorstein Veblen Famous Quotes

University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers…and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn’t even ask for erasers.
~Author : Isaac Asimov Inspirational Sayings

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
~Author : Kit Carson Nice Quotes

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “thank you,” that would suffice.
~Author : Meister Eckhart Great Sayings

Eternity is very long, especially towards the end.
~Author : Woody Allen Just Six Numbers Martin Rees page 71 Meaningful Sayings

It is never too late to become what we might have been.
~Author : George Eliot 18191880 Wise Quotes

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
~Author : Mark Twain Motivational Sayings

God, I don?t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
~Author : Real Live Preacher RealLivePreachercom Weblog December 26 2002 Famous Quotes

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.
~Author : Anon Inspirational Sayings

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
~Author : anonymous Nice Quotes

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
~Author : Adlai E Stevenson Jr Great Sayings

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
~Author : Will Rogers Meaningful Sayings

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Wise Quotes

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Motivational Sayings

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
~Author : Betty Naomi Friedan Famous Quotes

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
~Author : William Penn Inspirational Sayings

To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
~Author : Bernard Edmonds Nice Quotes

If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it’s some type of parasite, because this is the part where I take it EASY
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Great Sayings

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
~Author : Anton Chekhov Meaningful Sayings

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~Author : Joseph Addison Wise Quotes

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Motivational Sayings