The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
~quote about April Fool's Day by George Orwell
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.
~quotes on Society by Will Rogers
It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them
~sayings on Dreams by Samuel Smiles
There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
~quotations on American football by Alfred Hitchcock
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion
~funny short saying by Martha Graham
I think the world is run by C students.
~saying about short by Al McGuire
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
~quote about Teachers by Author Unknown
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
~quotes on Decisions by Herman Broch
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
~sayings on Environment by Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973
Adversity introduces a man to himself
~quotations on Adversity by Author Unknown
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~funny short saying by Edward Steichen
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
~saying about short by George Bernard Shaw
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
~quote about Sports by Blaise Pascal
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
~quotes on Women by Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
~sayings on Honesty by Jerome K. Jerome
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
~quotations on Passion by Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856
The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either.
~funny short saying by John J. Welsh
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
~saying about short by Salvador Dali
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
~quote about Human Rights by Howard Mumford Jones
A King, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A Father can do neither
~quotes on Competence by Marlene Dietrich
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
~sayings on Teachers by Kahlil Gibran
Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again
~quotations on Goodbye by Elizabeth Bowen
Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.
~funny short saying by John Wooden
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
~saying about short by Victor Hugo
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
~quote about Courage by Edward Weeks
The problem is not that there are problemsThe problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem
~quotes on Adversity by Theodore Rubin
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
~sayings on Being Yourself by Shirley MacLaine
Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
~quotations on Religion by Ambrose Bierce
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
~funny short saying by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On Tranquillity of the Mind, Moral Essays
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust
~saying about short by Charles Krauthammer
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
~quote about Success by Anthony Robbins
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
~quotes on Golf by Tiger Woods
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born
~sayings on Friends by Anais Nin
Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker.
~quotations on Humorous by From the movie Naked
A sense of humor is the lubricant of life's machinery
~funny short saying by Unknown
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
~saying about short by Erica Jong
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.
~quote about Science by Karl Marx, Capital, 1867
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
~quotes on Jealousy by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
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