Uno sciocco e il suo denaro son presto separati; English Equivalent: A fool and his money are soon parted
~quote about Money by Italian Proverb
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
~quotes on Faith by Author Unknown
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.
~sayings on Self by Ethel Barrymore
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
~quotations on Baseball by Warren Spahn
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
~famous movie sayings by Willa Cather, 1913
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
~saying about movie by George Bernard Shaw
Learning only from our own experience is like learning the traffic rules by accident.
~quote about Entrepreneurism by
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
~quotes on Tennis by Jacques Barzun
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
~sayings on Self-Discovery by Carl G. Jung
It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.
~quotations on War by George McGovern
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
~famous movie sayings by Doug Larson
Hire character. Train skill.
~saying about movie by Peter Schutz
Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, &34;What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? Instead, they demand: How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
~quote about Wise Words by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French
The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness.
~quotes on Idleness by Walter Gaston Shotwell
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~sayings on Books Reading by J. Swartz
Love is friendship set on fire.
~quotations on Famous Saying by Jeremy Taylor
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.
~famous movie sayings by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
~saying about movie 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.
~quote about Age by Douglas MacArthur
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~quotes on Helping by Mahatma Ghandi
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~sayings on Determination by
There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.
~quotations on Cats by Louis J. Camuti
Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how.
~famous movie sayings by Unknown
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
~saying about movie 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.
~quote about 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!
~quotes on History by George Macaulay Trevelyan
Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head.
~sayings on Homosexuality by Graffiti
He is able who thinks he is able.
~quotations on Self Improvement by Buddha
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
~famous movie sayings by Benjamin Disraeli
One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth
~saying about movie by Voltaire
Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there
~quote about 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.
~quotes 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.
~sayings on Happiness 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
~quotations on Valentine's Day by Margaret Atwood
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring
~famous movie sayings by George Santayana
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
~saying about movie by H.G. Wells, 1935
Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
~quote about Caffeine by Dutch Proverb
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
~quotes on Caffeine by Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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