O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
~quote about Alcohol by William Shakespeare, Othello
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
~quotes on Worry by Charles Dickens
If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using an outside agency and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
~sayings on Golf by Henry Longhurst
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
~quotations on Happiness by Charles L. Morgan
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
~funny sayings and phrase by James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
~saying about phrase by Henry David Thoreau
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: Look at this Godawful mess.
~quote about Environment by Art Buchwald, 1970
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
~quotes on Prayer by William McGill
only god can judge me
~sayings on Self Confidence by Tupac Shakur
History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance.
~quotations on History by R. Jackson Wilson
The end of labor is to gain leisure
~funny sayings and phrase by Aristotle
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
~saying about phrase by Montaigne, Essays, 1588
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
~quote about Hair by George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
Gone golfin'... be back dark thirty.
~quotes on Golf by Author Unknown
What do you think of God, the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, He's not a think, he's a feel.
~sayings on God by Paul Frost
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
~quotations on Philosophical by Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
~funny sayings and phrase by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnightExtend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any rewardYour life will never be the same again
~saying about phrase by Og Mandino
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
~quote about Past by Virginia Woolf
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going
~quotes on Graduation by Beverly Sills
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.
~sayings on Nature by Alice Meynell
You don't choose your familyThey are God's gift to you, as you are to them
~quotations on Grandparents Day by Desmond Tutu
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.
~funny sayings and phrase by Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
~saying about phrase by Dale Carnegie
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private.
~quote about Clothing by Elizabeth Wilson
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
~quotes on Politics by Winston Churchill
Go put your creed into your deed.
~sayings on Hypocrisy by Ralph Waldo Emerson
How can something bother you if you won't let it?
~quotations on Adversity by Terri Guillemets
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
~funny sayings and phrase by Gil Stern
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.
~saying about phrase by Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.
~quote about Life by William Lyon Phelps
The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men.
~quotes on History by F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
~sayings on Censorship by Noam Chomsky
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened
~quotations on Birthdays by Jennifer Yane
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
~funny sayings and phrase by Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775
I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.
~saying about phrase by Gene Perret
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
~quote about Health by Author Unknown
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
~quotes on Computers by One of Murphy's Laws of Technology
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