Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.
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Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.
~quotes on Drugs by P.J. O'Rourke If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
~sayings on Speaking by George Barzan If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say no to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
~quotations on War by Louis Lecoin Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely
~end of friendship quotes by Unknown A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
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Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
~quote about Mothers by Golda Meir Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
~quotes on Jealousy by Ovid What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you
~sayings on Missing You by Richard Wilbur Kindness is for all times in all situations -- not just when it suits you.
~quotations on Attitude by Audray Landrum Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
~end of friendship quotes by Barry Switzer Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler.
~saying about end of friendship by Author Unknown A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
~quote about Ignorance by Bob Edwards An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
~quotes on Diplomacy by Henry Wotton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next
~sayings on Patriot Day by Mignon McLaughlin A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
~quotations on Teenagers by Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951 There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
~end of friendship quotes by W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938 If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
~saying about end of friendship by Homer Simpson, The Simpsons War! that mad game the world so loves to play.
~quote about War by Jonathan Swift It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
~quotes on Apologies by P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
~sayings on Grandparents by Art Linkletter Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
~quotations on Humankind by William Ralph Inge I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
~end of friendship quotes by Groucho Marx A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
~saying about end of friendship by Author Unknown Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
~quote about Inner Child by Pablo Picasso Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~quotes on Government by Denis Diderot The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
~sayings on Speaking by George Bernard Shaw It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone
~quotations on Baseball by Bartlett Giamatti It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
~end of friendship quotes by Leopold von Ranke, History of the Popes The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
~saying about end of friendship by Author Unknown Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
~quote about Helping by John Wooden Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
~quotes on Changes by Francis Bacon Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
~sayings on Guests by Author Unknown Never have children, only grandchildren.
~quotations on Grandparents by Gore Vidal By the time a son realizes his father usually right, he has a son who thinks his father is usually wrong.
~end of friendship quotes by Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
~saying about end of friendship by Kin Hubbard Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
~quote about Health by Charles Simmons The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
~quotes on Marriage by Gabriel García Márquez
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