Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
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An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
~quotes on Optimism Pessimism by Helen Rowland In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.
~sayings on Age by Douglas MacArthur You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~quotations on Helping by Mahatma Ghandi Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~cute baby quotes by There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.
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Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how.
~quote about Attitude by Unknown If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
~quotes on Writing by Isaac Asimov Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
~sayings on Sex by Thomas Szasz If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
~quotations on History by George Macaulay Trevelyan Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head.
~cute baby quotes by Graffiti He is able who thinks he is able.
~saying about baby by Buddha Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
~quote about Sisters by Benjamin Disraeli One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth
~quotes on Death by Voltaire Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there
~sayings on Easter by Clarence W. Hall The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
~quotations on Action by Vance Havner Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~cute baby quotes by Joseph Addison The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love
~saying about baby by Margaret Atwood To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring
~quote about Groundhog Day by George Santayana When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
~quotes on Sex by H.G. Wells, 1935 Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
~sayings on Caffeine by Dutch Proverb No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
~quotations on Caffeine by Sheik Abd-al-Kadir Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
~cute baby quotes by Aristotle Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
~saying about baby by Edgar Saltus I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
~quote about Death by R. Geis Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
~quotes on Humor by Mary Hirsch I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
~sayings on Freedom by James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788 It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door, he used to say. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
~quotations on Wise Words by J.R.R. Tolkien, Three Is Company, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954 The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
~cute baby quotes by Andre Gide He who strikes first shows his ideas have run out.
~saying about baby by Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
~quote about Statistics by W.I.E. Gates You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.
~quotes on Nature by Russell Chatham, Silent Seasons, 1978 There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
~sayings on Night by N.P. Willis I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
~quotations on Photography by William Albert Allard, The Photographic Essay Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.
~cute baby quotes by Author Unknown An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
~saying about baby by Mahatma Gandhi The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
~quote about Civilization by Carol Matthau Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
~quotes on Grandparents by Lord Chesterfield
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