Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
~quote about Death by Albert Einstein
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
~quotes on Friendship by Eustache Deschamps
Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
~sayings on Perspective by Oliver Prince Smith
Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.
~quotations on Fear by Author Unknown
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
~funny friend quote by Jules Renard
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
~saying about friend by John Muir
Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
~quote about Relationship by Barbara De Angelis
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
~quotes on Parenting by John Wilmot
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
~sayings on Wise Words by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.
~quotations on Sports by Rodney Marsh, 1969
Freiend are who should be standing beside you in gold and even in dirt. for them to be called good friends
~funny friend quote by
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering
~saying about friend by Colette
This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, Honey, do this, and Honey, do that around the house.
~quote about Housework by Jim Lemon
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books
~quotes on Books by Voltaire
Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- is this: dream a great dream
~sayings on Dreams by John A. Appleman
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
~quotations on Philosophical by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole
~funny friend quote by Bobcat Goldthwaite
The harder and smarter we work, the luckier we get – and the more we live.
~saying about friend by
Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
~quote about Government by Werner Finck
Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.
~quotes on Health by James H. West
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
~sayings on Business by Harold Geneen
It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted.
~quotations on Trees by Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.
~funny friend quote by Chris Laidlaw, 1973
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
~saying about friend by Henny Youngman
A book that is shut is but a block.
~quote about Books Reading by Thomas Fuller
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
~quotes on War by Colman McCarthy
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship
~sayings on Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity is the first path to truth.
~quotations on Adversity by Lord Byron
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
~funny friend quote by James G. Blaine
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
~saying about friend by Lillian Gish
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~quote about Travel by St. Augustine
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
~quotes on Poverty by Sydney Smith, His Wit and Wisdom, 1900
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
~sayings on Self-Discovery by Douglas Adams
One hates an author that's all author.
~quotations on Writing by George Gordon, Lord Byron, Beppo
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
~funny friend quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
~saying about friend by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
~quote about Goals by Henry Ford
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.
~quotes on Passion by Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692
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