We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.
~quotes on Women by George du Maurier The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.
~sayings on Religion by Garrett Hardin Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
~quotations on Leadership by Albert Schweitzer Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
~funny confucious sayings by William Shakespeare Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
~quote about Logic by Benjamin Jowett The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good timeBut man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end
~quotes on Party Invitations by Don Marquis No one ever went broke under-estimating the taste of the American public.
~sayings on Funny Saying by Mark Twain It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
~quotations on Society by Malcolm Potts, MD The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
~funny confucious sayings by William Faulkner Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.
~saying about confucious by Argosy Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
~quote about Children by Margaret Atwood Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
~quotes on Parenting by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
~sayings on Driving by Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974 Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
~quotations on Debt by American Proverb Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
~funny confucious sayings by George Seaton A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
~saying about confucious by Henry Ward Beecher Retire from work, but not from life
~quote about Retirement by M.K. Soni I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
~quotes on Beauty by Karl Lagerfeld A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.
~sayings on Marriage by African Proverb History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.
~quotations on History by Paul Valéry, Regards sur le Monde Actuel Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
~funny confucious sayings by Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt Because I took a moment to speak
And you took a second to smile
A tiny part of me will leave with you
And a little bit of you will stay.
~saying about confucious by Jevan May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
~quote about Fishing by Irish Blessing Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
~quotes on Dieting by Author Unknown Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
~sayings on Life by W. Somerset Maugham We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere
~quotations on Celebrity by Tim McGraw Bad is never good until worse happens
~funny confucious sayings by Danish Proverb Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
~saying about confucious by John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
~quote about Hope by Tertullian Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
~quotes on Travel by Seneca History paints the human heart.
~sayings on History by Napoleon I Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
~quotations on Conformity by Mark Twain Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
~funny confucious sayings by Henri Frederic Amiel Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
~saying about confucious by Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988 A man's library is a sort of harem.
~quote about Libraries by Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860 When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
~quotes on Anger by Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
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