Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
~quote about Passion by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
~quotes on Media Journalism by Rebecca West
Heat, ma’am! I said; it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
~sayings on Arizona by Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir (It's actually not about Arizona, but it fits!)
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
~quotations on Philosophical by Friedrich Nietzche
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
~funny sayings about marriage by David Gerrold
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
~saying about marriage by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Never praise or criticize yourself. Both embarrass others. Our criticism is always believed, our praise seldom.
~quote about Attitude by
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
~quotes on Parenting by Chinese Proverb
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
~sayings on Light by Irish Proverb
I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the bare bones of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.
~quotations on Media Journalism by Dave Barry
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
~funny sayings about marriage by Aldous Huxley
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing
~saying about marriage by Vince Lombardi
My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I should be doing.
~quote about Humankind by Lonzo Idolswine
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
~quotes on Sleep by Leo J. Burke
Use you head to handle yourself; your heart to handle others.
~sayings on Proverbs by
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.
~quotations on Parenting by Charles Barkley
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
~funny sayings about marriage by Dorothy Fulheim
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~saying about marriage by George Bernard Shaw
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
~quote about Jealousy by Antisthenes
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
~quotes on Religion by Jonathon Miller
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
~sayings on Bores by Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
~quotations on Crying by Christian Nevell Bovee
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
~funny sayings about marriage by Lewis Thomas
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
~saying about marriage by Bill Veeck
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
~quote about Faith by Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair
~quotes on Goodbye by William Cowper
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them
~sayings on Children by Jonas Salk
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
~quotations on History by Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around
~funny sayings about marriage by Jim Rohn
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
~saying about marriage by David Ben-Gurion
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
~quote about Love by Author Unknown
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
~quotes on Sports by John Donne, 1623
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
~sayings on Parenting by Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.
~quotations on Kindness by Dan Bennett
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
~funny sayings about marriage by Susan Sontag
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.
~saying about marriage by Donald D. Quinn
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
~quote about Philosophical by Terry Josephson
What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you?
~quotes on Television by J.B. Priestley
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