We all need someone or something to inspire us to bring out our best.
~quote about Success by
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
~quotes on Mind by Mark Twain
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather.
~sayings on Chakras by Martha Graham
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no top.
~quotations on Success by Nancy Barcus
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
~funny quotes about man by George Bernard Shaw
Thou shalt not kill does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
~saying about man by Leo Tolstoy
After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.
~quote about Golf by Chi Chi Rodriguez, on his Puerto Rican accent
There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.
~quotes on Education by Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, September 1982
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
~sayings on Dancing by Martha Graham
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
~quotations on Graduation by B.F. Skinner
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
~funny quotes about man by Max Eastman
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
~saying about man by Josh Billings
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
~quote about Stress by Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949
Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragranceIt may weave a spell of nostalgiaChristmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in whi
~quotes on Christmas by Augusta E. Rundel
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
~sayings on Attitude by Ellen Glasgow
Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace.
~quotations on Compassion by Albert Schweitzer
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter
~funny quotes about man by Bertolt Brecht
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
~saying about man by Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
~quote about Sports by Gene Mauch
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
~quotes on Education by Martin H. Fischer
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
~sayings on Hope by Author Unknown
Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love.
~quotations on Sex by Woody Allen
America is another name for opportunityOur whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race
~funny quotes about man by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community.
~saying about man by Martin H. Fischer
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
~quote about Boldness by Machiavelli
The Game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears and score your points when you get the opportunity
~quotes on Attitude by
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to workSo I do it three or four times a day
~sayings on Retirement by Gene Perret
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it
~quotations on Election Day by Benjamin Lichtenberg
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
~funny quotes about man by Robert S. Lynd
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one
~saying about man by Benjamin Franklin
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
~quote about Optimism Pessimism by Chauncey Mitchell Depew
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
~quotes on Environment by Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
~sayings on Perseverance by Author Unknown
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
~quotations on Environment by Carl Sagan
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
~funny quotes about man by Source Unknown
Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?
~saying about man by Dave Shiflett, quoted in Houston Chronicle, 29 April 1990
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~quote about Education by Aristotle
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
~quotes on Kindness by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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