Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~quotes on Self Improvement by Aldous Huxley Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty
~sayings on Women's Greetings by James Thurber, Time, 15 August 1960 Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
~quotations on Marriage by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
~funny short sayings by Samuel Johnson [A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
~saying about short by Robert Frost, The Figure a Poem Makes, Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939Motivational Quotes
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
~quote about Parenting by Colette, My Mother's House, 1922 Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord.
~quotes on Religion by Donald Morgan A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, where mother is.
~sayings on Mothers by Keith L. Brooks The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
~quotations on Books Reading by Washington Irving The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
~funny short sayings by Isak Dinesen There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
~saying about short by Roderick Haig-Brown, Fisherman's Spring, 1951 Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.
~quote about Conformity by Raymond E. Feist Courage is a kind of salvation.
~quotes on Courage by Plato On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.
~sayings on Wise Words by Confucian Analects The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than hutsNo Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving
~quotations on Thanksgiving Day by H.U. Westermayer Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
~funny short sayings by Louis Céline, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932 Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
~saying about short by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
~quote about Courage by Thomas Fuller You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.
~quotes on Thinking by Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997 Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
~sayings on Patriotism by Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
~quotations on Being Yourself by James Matthew Barrie I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
~funny short sayings by Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, popularly misattributed to Samuel Johnson For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
~saying about short by Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000 Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
~quote about Speeches by Henry Ward Beecher I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
~quotes on Gardens by Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
~sayings on Curiosity by Albert Einstein There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.
~quotations on Homosexuality by Boy George They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe
~funny short sayings by Edward Westcott Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
~saying about short by Author Unknown If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~quote about Passion by Benjamin Franklin Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things
~quotes on Motivation by Frank A. Clark Who kept the faith and fought the fight;The glory theirs, the duty ours.
~sayings on Memorial Day by Wallace Bruce I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.
~quotations on Consumerism by Adriano Tilgher It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
~funny short sayings by Woody Allen The value of compassion cannot be overemphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
~saying about short by Arthur H. Stainback Pictures must not be too picturesque.
~quote about Art by Ralph Waldo Emerson The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
~quotes on Water by Annie Dillard
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