Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
~quote about Health by Leo Tolstoy
Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.
~quotes on Jealousy by Elizabeth O'Connor
Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.
~sayings on Miscellaneous by George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896
We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
~quotations on Religion by Robert G. Ingersoll
Life moves pretty fastIf you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it
~funny irish quote by From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
~saying about irish by Peter McArthur
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.
~quote about Gardens by Eleanor Perényi, Green Thoughts, 1981
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
~quotes on Attitude by Abraham Lincoln
I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
~sayings on Feminism by Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate
If we don't end war, war will end us.
~quotations on War by H.G. Wells, Things to Come, 1935
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
~funny irish quote by Woody Allen
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
~saying about irish by Stephen Levine
Debt is the worst poverty.
~quote about Debt by Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
~quotes on Grandparents by Hannah Whithall Smith
If you're going to tickle, use a feather not a whip.
~sayings on Philosophical by Audrey Foris, C'est l'esprit du coq rouge (Red Rooster Musings, trans.)
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
~quotations on Golf by Sam Snead
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
~funny irish quote by Henry Fosdick
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
~saying about irish by George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1932
Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
~quote about Science by George Bernard Shaw
Success is dependent upon the glands; sweat glands.
~quotes on Success by Zig Ziglar
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
~sayings on Anger by Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
~quotations on Gossip by Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what the story of the trees would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand.
~funny irish quote by Author Unknown, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.
~saying about irish by Jonathan Swift
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
~quote about Sports by George A. Sheehan
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
~quotes on Love by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's EveMiddle age is when you're forced to
~sayings on New Year by Bill Vaughn
Pain is inevitableSuffering is optional
~quotations on Adversity by M. Kathleen Casey
When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~funny irish quote by John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
~saying about irish by The Sickness Unto Death
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.
~quote about Smiles by Author Unknown
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.
~quotes on Sex by Truman Capote
People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days?
~sayings on Living by Robert M. Young
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
~quotations on Women by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
~funny irish quote by Bern Williams
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.
~saying about irish by Ernest Hello
One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.
~quote about Winter by Shirley Ann Grau
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
~quotes on Attitude by Buddha
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