Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
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I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.
~quotes on Gambling by Joe E. Lewis Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them.
~sayings on History by Guy Fregault, La guerre de la conquête Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
~quotations on Education by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
~motivational quotes and picture by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
~quote about Feminism by Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.
~quotes on Clothing by Molly Ivins Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
~sayings on Poetry by Carl Sandburg I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
~quotations on Horses by Mark Twain Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
~motivational quotes and picture by Alfred North Whitehead What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
~saying about picture by Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871 Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
~quote about Patriotism by George Jean Nathan Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
~quotes on Human Rights by Robert Ingersoll I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.
~sayings on Light by Emily Dickinson Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
~quotations on Creativity by Friedrich Nietzsche To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
~motivational quotes and picture by Beverly Nichols Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
~saying about picture by Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942 Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~quote about Humility by Malcolm S. Forbes The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.
~quotes on Literature by Samual McChord Crothers Duty is what one expects from others.
~sayings on Responsibility by Oscar Wilde It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
~quotations on Technology by Albert Einstein There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
~motivational quotes and picture by Woody Hayes Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
~saying about picture by Samuel Johnson I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.
~quote about Caffeine by John Van Druten Use your own best judgment at all times.
~quotes on Integrity by The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
~sayings on Proverbs by Ralph Waldo Emerson Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
~quotations on Justice by David Dudley Field Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
~motivational quotes and picture by Baba Ram Dass Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
~saying about picture by Adlai Stevenson If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
~quote about Action by Charles Barkley Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life
~quotes on Labor Day by Marc Chagall Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
~sayings on God by Alfred North Whitehead The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
~quotations on Writing by Mark Twain A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
~motivational quotes and picture by Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
~saying about picture by William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922 On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
~quote about Grandparents by Gene Perret The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.
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