It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
~quote about Cool by Theodore Roosevelt
Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.
~quotes on Taxes by Gerald Barzan
If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams.
~sayings on Conformity by Clive Barker
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
~quotations on Poetry by Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957
Inspiration seldom generates action, actions always create inspiration, do something – anything.
~funny short sayings by
A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
~saying about short by Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein
This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hopeSo it was in the beginningSo it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith
~quote about Independence Day by Lyndon B. Johnson
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
~quotes on Freedom by Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role
~sayings on Celebrity by Boy George
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
~quotations on History by Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
~funny short sayings by Author Unknown
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain
~saying about short by Robert A. Heinlein
We can never do a kindness too soon because we never know how soon it will be too late.
~quote about Attitude by
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.
~quotes on Tea by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.
~sayings on Money by Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots
~quotations on Valentine's Day by Hoosier Farmer
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
~funny short sayings by From the movie Annie
People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.
~saying about short by Wilhelm Stekel
Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live, at least a while. And, dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom
~quote about Freedom by William Wallace
I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.
~quotes on Money by Ron Kittle, 1987
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
~sayings on Weeds by John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881
Some may think that life is laughing at us! Well we'll see who will have the last laugh!
~quotations on Living by Siro
Don't worry about people stealing your ideasIf your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats
~funny short sayings by Howard Aiken
'Will' is what creates the energy and courage to create. 'Want,' by itself, just isn't enough.
~saying about short by Nisandeh Neta
May you get what you wish for
~quote about Adversity by Old Chinese Curse
Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.
~quotes on Prejudice by From a Winston advertisement
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.
~sayings on Sex by Bob Hope
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
~quotations on Marriage by Robert Frost
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.
~funny short sayings by Maurice Maeterlinck
Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
~saying about short by Francis Rodman
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
~quote about Funny Quotes by Dave Barry
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet
~quotes on Grandparents Day by Gene Perret
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forestI too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high
~sayings on Sweetest Day by Fiona MacLeod
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
~quotations on Age by Saint Aurelius Augustine
You have to be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
~funny short sayings by Charles De Gaulle, Time, 8 December 1967
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
~saying about short by Van Wyck Brooks
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
~quote about Age by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.
~quotes on Women by Germaine Greer
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