Time is the fire in which we burn.
~quote about Time by Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day, 1937 (Thank you, George.)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~quotes on Living by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts.
~sayings on Scrapbooking by Author Unknown
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
~quotations on Language by Samuel Johnson
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
~funny sarcastic sayings by Mark Twain
No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
~saying about sarcastic by Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
~quote about Self-Discovery by George Bernard Shaw
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
~quotes on Compassion by Emerson
Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
~sayings on Curmudgeons by Bill Press
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
~quotations on Religion by George Santayana
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
~funny sarcastic sayings by S. Parkes Cadman
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
~saying about sarcastic by Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999
[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
~quote about Laughter by Hugh Sidey
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
~quotes on Teachers by Author Unknown
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
~sayings on Books Reading by John Ruskin
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday
~quotations on Birthday Sayings by John Glenn
Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
~funny sarcastic sayings by Jimmy Carter
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral
~saying about sarcastic by Antoine De Saint
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
~quote about Math by Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary
If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.
~quotes on Nostalgia by Griff Niblack
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.
~sayings on Censorship by Harold R. Medina
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
~quotations on Driving by Mary Ellen Kelly
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men
~funny sarcastic sayings by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
~saying about sarcastic by François Rabelais, Pantagruel, 1572
Failing to distinguish between needs and wants keeps many people poor. Think.
~quote about Financial by
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
~quotes on Self Discipline by John Ruskin
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart
~sayings on Christmas by Washington Irving
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
~quotations on Decisions by Rita Mae Brown
God gave burdens, also shoulders
~funny sarcastic sayings by Yiddish Proverb
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
~saying about sarcastic by Norman Vincent Peale
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.
~quote about Environment by Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
~quotes on Age by Ashley Montagu
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to takeYou can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack
~sayings on Adversity by Author Unknown
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
~quotations on Art by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.
~funny sarcastic sayings by The Talmud
anyone of us has a right to love and to be loved,so go on and find anyone so that you will be loved.
~saying about sarcastic by Jan Laurence Fernan
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
~quote about Society by Peter Medawar
A good character is the best tombstoneThose who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have witheredCarve your name on hearts, not on marble
~quotes on Sweetest Day by Charles H. Spurgeon
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