There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
~quote about Curmudgeons by Ralph Waldo Emerson Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
~quotes on Society by Barbara Jordan
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~sayings on Teacher Appreciation by Henry Adams An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
~quotations on Creativity by Buddha The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
~inspirational sports sayings by James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926 Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I am with you kid. Let's go.
~saying about sports by Maya Angelou Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.
~quote about Adversity by William Shakespeare, Henry IV
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~quotes on Patriotism by Arthur C. Clarke Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
~sayings on Family by Barbara De Angelis Historians are themselves products of history.
~quotations on History by Paul K. Conkin and Roland N. Stromberg, Heritage and Challenge My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.
~inspirational sports sayings by Joe Weinstein Ah, sweet cubicle. I have returned from my trip. It's just like being in the womb
~saying about sports by Dilbert Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
~quote about Hypocrisy by J. Petit-Senn Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
~quotes on Love by Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524 A man is what he thinks about all day long.
~sayings on Attitude by Emerson Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly
~quotations on Valentine's Day by Proverb True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
~inspirational sports sayings by François, duc de La Rochefoucauld To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered
~saying about sports by Oscar Wilde A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.
~quote about Hate by Charles Baudelaire, Advice to Young Writers, 1867 I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
~quotes on Effort by Larry Bird Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
~sayings on Music by Benjamin Disraeli Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
~quotations on Light by Charles Simic Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time
~inspirational sports sayings by Lou Brock With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
~saying about sports by Norman Mailer To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
~quote about Adversity by Oscar Wilde I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them.
~quotes on Television by John Barrow, 1973 In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.
~sayings on Jewelry by Henry Brooke A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
~quotations on Property by Theodore Roosevelt There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
~inspirational sports sayings by Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898 Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course
~saying about sports by William Shakespeare Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time.
~quote about Computers by N.J. Rubenking Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot
~quotes on Education by Clarence Thomas Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
~sayings on Laughter by Victor Borge No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
~quotations on Photography by Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995 Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
~inspirational sports sayings by Jean de la Bruyere Marriage is a meal where the soup is better than the dessert.
~saying about sports by Austin O'Malley Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself
~quote about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
~quotes on Mothers by Beverly Jones
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