Coolidge was known for his terse speech and reticence. A woman bet her friend that she could get Coolidge to speak to her, which was something he was reluctant to do. She went up to him and said: Hello, Mr. President, I bet my friend that I could get you to say three words to me. You lose, Coolidge replied dryly, and walked away.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
~quotes on Perspective by H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956 Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
~sayings on Adversity by Winston Churchill A garden of Love grows in a Grandmother's heart.
~quotations on Grandparents by Author Unknown Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim
~cute sayings about friendship by William Feather The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
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About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
~quote about Self-Control by Tom Wilson I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
~quotes on Opportunities by Mark Twain Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
~sayings on Kindness by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
~quotations on Conformity by Carl Sandburg You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
~cute sayings about friendship by Robin Williams In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
~saying about friendship by Honore de Balzac If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
~quote about Helping by Betty Reese Reality is not always probable, or likely.
~quotes on Reality by Jorge Luis Borges Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination
~sayings on Commitment Ceremonies by Voltaire Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal
~quotations on Graduation by Henry Ford Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
~cute sayings about friendship by Lynn Hecht Schafren An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as a act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception
~saying about friendship by Harold Loukes Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
~quote about Unemployment by Cato the Elder Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
~quotes on Marriage by H.L. Mencken, Sententiae, A Book of Burlesques, 1920 Where liberty dwells, there is my country
~sayings on Independence Day by Benjamin Franklin I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal.
~quotations on Dancing by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really.
~cute sayings about friendship by Lenny Bruce, Religions Inc., in The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen, 1967 Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
~saying about friendship by Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911 Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical
~quote about Baseball by Yogi Berra Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other
~quotes on Baby by Ed Howe All skills are difficult before they’re easy. To master s skill we must become its slave.
~sayings on Success by On your birthday: count your candles, count your years, count your blessings!
~quotations on Birthday Sayings by birthday boy Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.
~cute sayings about friendship by Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003 Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
~saying about friendship by Henry S. Haskins Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
~quote about Dogs by Franklin P. Jones Many people read a lot because reading is easier than thinking. Thinking is hard work.
~quotes on Self Improvement by My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
~sayings on Integrity by Thomas Paine We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
~quotations on Money by Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
~cute sayings about friendship by Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862 Music's the medicine of the mind.
~saying about friendship by John A. Logan The valley we call Death, isn't really that different from much of the rest of the desert West. It's just a little deeper, a little hotter and a little drier. What sets it apart more than anything else is the mind's eye
~quote about Death by Richard E. Lingenfelter It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
~quotes on Charm by Oscar Wilde
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