We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~quote about Attitude by Author Unknown
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~quotes on Love by W. Somerset Maugham
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
~sayings on Self by Michel de Montaigne
The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is
~quotations on Women's Greetings by Helen Rowland
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
~inspirational sayings about life by George Gobel
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.
~saying about life by William James, 11 September 1906
Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.
~quote about Proverbs by
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
~quotes on Nature by Michel de Montaigne
Since our happiness depends on the character of our thoughts, away forever with all negatives. It requires effort to keep positive, but anything that doesn’t take effort isn’t worth having.
~sayings on Happiness by
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
~quotations on Happiness by Johnny Carson
I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese.
~inspirational sayings about life by Author Unknown (Thank you, Eric.)
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
~saying about life by Samuel Johnson
Save a tree. Eat a beaver.
~quote about Trees by Author Unknown
Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
~quotes on Thinking by Confucius, Analects
Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
~sayings on Guests by Victor Borge
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.
~quotations on Education by Richard Yates
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
~inspirational sayings about life by John Burroughs
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something
~saying about life by Henry David Thoreau
There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
~quote about Libraries by Tom Masson
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.
~quotes on Society by D.H. Lawrence
People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
~sayings on Quotations by David H. Comins
Losing is the great American sin.
~quotations on Sports by Jerome Holtzman
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation
~inspirational sayings about life by Woodrow Wilson
every rose has thorns
~saying about life by none
No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.
~quote about Scrapbooking by Author Unknown, The Scrappers Creed
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
~quotes on Religion by Mark Twain
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~sayings on America by Abraham Lincoln
God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
~quotations on Gardens by Author Unknown
If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?
~inspirational sayings about life by Joan Baez, What Would You Do If....?
Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.
~saying about life by Jackie Gleason
Failure to plan is unknowing planning to fail.
~quote about Self Discipline by
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
~quotes on Carpe Diem by Tagore
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
~sayings on Society by Russell P. Askue
If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough.
~quotations on Gambling by VP Pappy
If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.
~inspirational sayings about life by Sally Edwards
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
~saying about life by John Egan
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
~quote about Philosophical by John Lancaster Spalding
The cigarette does the smoking - you're just the sucker.
~quotes on Smoking by Author Unknown
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