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

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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