Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.
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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
~quotes on Language by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin I like to see a man proud of the place in which he livesI like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him
~sayings on Patriotic by Abraham Lincoln It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
~quotations on Confidence by Author Unknown Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle.
~famous death quote by Matti Kuusi Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
~quote about Libraries by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
~quotes on Attitude by Arthur Christopher Benson I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
~sayings on Walking by Will Rogers Success comes oftener through right attitude than great ability. Several companies were going under through lack of money. They hired consultants who points out theirs problem was not a money problem, but an idea problem. New ideas saved them.
~quotations on Success by People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.
~famous death quote by Voltaire, Trate sur la tolerance When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long.
~saying about death by Author Unknown If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
~quote about History by John Acton Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
~quotes on Music by Henry David Thoreau Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
~sayings on Honesty by Lin Yutang It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.
~quotations on Baseball by Mike Royko Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~famous death quote by Abraham Lincoln Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
~saying about death by Andre Gide Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
~quote about Gratitude by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld There are no pockets in a shroud.
~quotes on Money by Author Unknown Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.
~sayings on Fishing by William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954 If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
~quotations on Carpe Diem by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
~famous death quote by Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker, 1955 It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before.
~saying about death by F. Scott Fitzgerald There was a star danced, and under that was I born
~quote about Birth by William Shakespeare Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~quotes on Poverty by Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
~sayings on Family by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.
~quotations on Responsibility by H.W. Lewis, Technological Risk, 1990 Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown
~famous death quote by China Man Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
~saying about death by Marcus Valerius Martial One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
~quote about Racism by Franklin Thomas Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
~quotes on Environment by Ian McHarg Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them? God said, I did do something. I made you.
~sayings on Helping by Author Unknown Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
~quotations on Vanity by John Adams Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
~famous death quote by Alice Walker We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
~saying about death by John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859 Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
~quote about Confidence by Veronica A. Shoffstall, After a While, 1971 Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
~quotes on Peace by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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