Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.
~quote about Insects by Mark Twain
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~quotes on Language by Erik Kowal, as posted on The Wordwizard Portal Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
~sayings on Passion by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
~quotations on Media Journalism by Rebecca West Heat, ma’am! I said; it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
~ben franklin famous sayings by Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir (It's actually not about Arizona, but it fits!) When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
~saying about ben franklin by Friedrich Nietzche
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~quote about Insults by David Gerrold In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
~quotes on Religion by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Never praise or criticize yourself. Both embarrass others. Our criticism is always believed, our praise seldom.
~sayings on Attitude by There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
~quotations on Parenting by Chinese Proverb Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
~ben franklin famous sayings by Irish Proverb I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the bare bones of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.
~saying about ben franklin by Dave Barry Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
~quote about Truth by Aldous Huxley Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing
~quotes on Sports by Vince Lombardi My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I should be doing.
~sayings on Humankind by Lonzo Idolswine People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
~quotations on Sleep by Leo J. Burke Use you head to handle yourself; your heart to handle others.
~ben franklin famous sayings by I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.
~saying about ben franklin by Charles Barkley Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
~quote about Age by Dorothy Fulheim We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~quotes on Wisdom by George Bernard Shaw As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
~sayings on Jealousy by Antisthenes In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
~quotations on Religion by Jonathon Miller We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
~ben franklin famous sayings by Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
~saying about ben franklin by Christian Nevell Bovee The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
~quote about Language by Lewis Thomas How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
~quotes on Wisdom by Bill Veeck Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
~sayings on Faith by Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair
~quotations on Goodbye by William Cowper Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them
~ben franklin famous sayings by Jonas Salk The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
~saying about ben franklin by Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around
~quote about Education by Jim Rohn The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
~quotes on Censorship by David Ben-Gurion You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
~sayings on Love by Author Unknown If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
~quotations on Sports by John Donne, 1623 The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
~ben franklin famous sayings by Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.
~saying about ben franklin by Dan Bennett Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
~quote about Generations by Susan Sontag If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.
~quotes on Teachers by Donald D. Quinn
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