It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~quote about Confidence by Edmund Hillary
Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched.
~quotes on Wise Words by Author Unknown
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
~sayings on Perspective by G.K. Chesterton
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
~quotations on Life by e.e. cummings
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
~funny graduation sayings by Sigmund Freud
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
~saying about graduation by Hendrik Willem van Loon
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
~quote about Bores by H.L. Mencken
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries
~quotes on Mothers Day by T. DeWitt Talmage
Anything simple always interests me.
~sayings on Simplicity by David Hockney
Sin is geographical.
~quotations on Perspective by Bertrand Russell
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
~funny graduation sayings by Fiona MacLeod
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges
~saying about graduation by John Burroughs, Journal
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
~quote about Humorous by Mae West
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats and one always secretes too much jelly.
~quotes on Quotations by Virginia Woolf
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~sayings on Education by Edward Everett
Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are.
~quotations on Perspective by Neale E. Howard, The Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas, 1967
Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.
~funny graduation sayings by Author Unknown
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
~saying about graduation by Susan Sontag
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
~quote about Mistakes by Henry C. Link
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
~quotes on Adversity by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
~sayings on Medical by Martin H. Fischer
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
~quotations on Self by Charles Caleb Colton
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
~funny graduation sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
~saying about graduation by Phyllis Diller
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
~quote about Hair by D.H. Lawrence
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
~quotes on Grandparents by Gene Perret
In summer, the song sings itself.
~sayings on Summer by William Carlos Williams
Liberty is the breath of life to nations
~quotations on Independence Day by George Bernard Shaw
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
~funny graduation sayings by Henry David Thoreau
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
~saying about graduation by Euclid
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
~quote about Stress by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
~quotes on Women by Billy Joel
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
~sayings on Anger by Author Unknown
God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.
~quotations on God by Author Unknown
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true
~funny graduation sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
~saying about graduation by Elizabeth Bowen
How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?
~quote about Television by Rod Serling, quoted in Submitted for Your Approval, Public Broadcasting Station, 1995
If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
~quotes on Night by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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