People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.
~quote about Sports by Don Murray
History is herstory too.
~quotes on Feminism by Author Unknown
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.
~sayings on Trees by Welsh Proverb
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
~quotations on Math by Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it
~funny sex quote by Author Unknown
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
~saying about sex by William Feather
What we can’t learn from proverbs we must learn from experience. Which is cheaper?
~quote about Proverbs by
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
~quotes on Smoking by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
~sayings on Friendship by Unknown
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
~quotations on Confidence by Sophia Loren
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
~funny sex quote by Arthur Koestler
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
~saying about sex by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.
~quote about Golf by Mac O'Grady, describing a typical round of golf
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
~quotes on Feminism by Robin Morgan
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
~sayings on Honesty by Edgar J. Mohn
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
~quotations on Human Rights by Gandhi
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
~funny sex quote by Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
~saying about sex by Jessamyn West
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
~quote about Helping by Mother Teresa
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
~quotes on Jobs by H. Jackson Browne
Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?
~sayings on Computers by Author Unknown
Enthusiasm is the invisible magnet that draws others to your view.
~quotations on Relationship by
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." . . . . It is when two such person discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude
~funny sex quote by C.S. Lewis
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
~saying about sex by William Shakespeare, The Twelfth Night
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
~quote about Valentine's Day by Robert Frost
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
~quotes on Mistakes by Henry David Thoreau
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
~sayings on Trees by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual food out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.
~quotations on Food by Miss Piggy
The best blush to use is laughter: It put roses in your cheeks and in your soul
~funny sex quote by Linda Knight
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
~saying about sex by Paul Eldridge, Maxims for a Modern Man
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
~quote about Confidence by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Lost some where between sunrise and sunset, two precious hours, each set with sixty priceless minutes. No reward is offered as they are gone – forever, as there is no resurrection for lost time. Count that day lost, whose low, descending sun, sees at thy hand, no worthy action done.
~quotes on Growth by
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
~sayings on Marriage by Katherine Hepburn
Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?
~quotations on God by Friedrich Nietzsche
Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.
~funny sex quote by Helen Thomson
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
~saying about sex by David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~quote about Gratitude by Thornton Wilder
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
~quotes on Teachers by Marva Collins
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