A man is not completely born until he is dead
~quote about Birth by Benjamin Franklin
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
~quotes on Perseverance by William Feather
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book
~sayings on Celebrity by Madonna
Nationalism is an infantile diease, the measles of mankind
~quotations on Mankind by Albert Einstein
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal
~funny quotes and phrase by Pamela Vaull Starr
A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.
~saying about phrase by Author Unknown
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
~quote about Philosophical by Friedrich Nietzsche
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
~quotes on America by Sigmund Freud
An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
~sayings on Purpose by José Ortega y Gasset
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
~quotations on Driving by Author Unknown
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
~funny quotes and phrase by Jeff Pesis
Let them think I throw it. That gives me an edge because it is another pitch they have to worry about
~saying about phrase by Lew Burdette
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
~quote about Genius by James Russell Lowell, Literary Essays
One of these days is none of these days.
~quotes on Procrastination by Attributed to both Henri Tubach and H.G. Bohn
The troubles deep in the pot are known only by the spoon
~sayings on Italian Sayings by Italian
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
~quotations on Kindness by Seneca
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
~funny quotes and phrase by Josephine Hart
She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.
~saying about phrase by Saul Bellow
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
~quote about Mind by Horace
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
~quotes on Telephones by Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies
The best contraceptive is a glass of cold water: not before or after, but instead.
~sayings on Sex by Author Unknown
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
~quotations on Dieting by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
~funny quotes and phrase by Groucho Marx
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
~saying about phrase by Gail Godwin
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
~quote about Religion by Author Unknown
Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.
~quotes on Parties by David Brown, quoted in Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes, April 2004
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
~sayings on Dogs by Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.
~quotations on Environment by Anonymous Wintu Woman
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.
~funny quotes and phrase by Al Oerter
Sometimes we make love with our eyesSometimes we make love with our handsSometimes we make love with our bodiesAlways we make love with our hearts
~saying about phrase by Author Unknown
The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian pahks his cah, the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to warsh his car and invest in erl wells.
~quote about Language by Author Unknown
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
~quotes on Silence by Walter Bagehot
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
~sayings on Environment by Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
~quotations on Learning by Hemingway, advice to Stanley Karnow, as quoted in Friendly Advice compiled and edited by Jon Winokur
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
~funny quotes and phrase by Richard P. Feynman
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.
~saying about phrase by Clifton Fadiman
For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.
~quote about Solitude by Terri Guillemets
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
~quotes on Stress by Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind
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