For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
~quote about Patriotic by Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
~quotes on Government by Theodore Forstmann
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
~sayings on Success by Dale Carnegie
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
~quotations on Grief by Author Unknown
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
~funny sayings and sign by George Berkeley
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
~saying about sign by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacherThat is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number
~quote about Teacher Appreciation by Author Unknown
Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.
~quotes on Labor by Scottish Proverb
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
~sayings on Weather by Henry Ward Beecher
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
~quotations on Laziness by David Dunham
I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes? My dear fellow, Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room.
~funny sayings and sign by Laurens Van der Post
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
~saying about sign by Fred Allen
I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking.
~quote about Relationship by Scarecrow
If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
~quotes on Mothers by Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
~sayings on Attitude by Thornton Wilder
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
~quotations on Love by Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth
~funny sayings and sign by Henry David Thoreau
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
~saying about sign by Mary Ellen Mark
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
~quote about Mothers by William Makepeace Thackeray
If you're going through hell, keep going.
~quotes on Adversity by Winston Churchill
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
~sayings on Soccer by Phil Woosnam, 1974
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
~quotations on Business by Malcolm Forbes
If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it
~funny sayings and sign by Rabert A. Henlein Lazarus Long
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
~saying about sign by Shana Alexander
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to
~quote about Music by Elvis Presley
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it
~quotes on Determination by Moliere
Question: I understand that Congress is considering a so-called 'flat' tax system. How would this work? Answer: If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.
~sayings on Taxes by Dave Barry
Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe
~quotations on Money by Cullen Hightower
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
~funny sayings and sign by Dylan Thomas, letter to Vernon Watkins, March 1938
If you use the electric vibrator near water, you will come and go at the same time.
~saying about sign by Louise Sammons
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude
~quote about Thanksgiving Day by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves
~quotes on Books by Gilbert Highet
History is an argument without end.
~sayings on History by Pieter Geyl
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
~quotations on Self-Control by Mick Jagger
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
~funny sayings and sign by Fran Lebowitz
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.
~saying about sign by Joseph Chatfield
One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.
~quote about Time by Sister Mary Paul
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
~quotes on Memory by William Faulkner
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