He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
~quote about Living by Emerson
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip
~quotes on Valentine's Day by Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
~sayings on Love by Margaret Atwood
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
~quotations on Life by Robert Louis Stevenson
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
~funny sayings about man by G.C. Lichtenberg
Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
~saying about man by Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Earth laughs in flowers.
~quote about Flowers by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
~quotes on Gardens by Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty
The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril.
~sayings on Music by Richard Baker
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
~quotations on Famous Saying by Voltaire
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
~funny sayings about man by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter.
~saying about man by Francis Bacon, Of Cunning, Essays
Trees are your best antiques.
~quote about Trees by Alexander Smith
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
~quotes on Women by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else
~sayings on Women's Greetings by Bella Abzug
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
~quotations on Kindness by Booker T. Washington
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
~funny sayings about man by Nicolas Chamfort
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~saying about man by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
~quote about Famous Saying by Albert Camus
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
~quotes on Anger by George Jean Nathan
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
~sayings on Self-Discovery by Wallace Stevens
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
~quotations on Silence by Andre Kostelanetz
If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em down.
~funny sayings about man by Author Unknown, Prayer of the Tired Walker
There is no wealth but life.
~saying about man by John Ruskin
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
~quote about Missing You by George Linley
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
~quotes on Funny Quotes by Mel Brooks
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken
~sayings on Housewarming by James Dent
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
~quotations on Sanity by Henry Ward Beecher
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it
~funny sayings about man by Margot Asquith
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
~saying about man by Ambrose Bierce
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
~quote about Famous Saying by Wernher Von Braun
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
~quotes on Dieting by Peter De Vries
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving
~sayings on Love by Mother Teresa
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
~quotations on Hawww by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The earth laughs in flowers
~funny sayings about man by ee cummings
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
~saying about man by Robert Orben
I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother's Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me... linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best.
~quote about Sisters by Patricia Volk
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
~quotes on Risk by Frederick B. Wilcox
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