Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
~quote about Wise Words by Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor.
~quotes on Bicycling by David Perry
Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
~sayings on Charm by Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas DayWe try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole yearAs for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the yearAnd thus I drift along into the holida
~quotations on Christmas by David Grayson
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
~motivational work quotes by Moritz Guedemann
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~saying about work by Anatole France
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
~quote about Adversity by Nicolas Chamfort
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~quotes on Cinema by Alfred Hitchcock
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
~sayings on Love by Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men.
~quotations on Religion by Robert G. Ingersoll, Ingersoll's Works, Vol. 1
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
~motivational work quotes by Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
~saying about work by Gabrielle Coco Chanel
Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people.
~quote about Food by Elizabeth Berry
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
~quotes on Hope by Author Unknown
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
~sayings on Thinking by John Locke, 16 May 1699
Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
~quotations on Smiles by W.C. Fields
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.
~motivational work quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~saying about work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
~quote about Grandparents by Gene Perret
Better than low taxes for mending hard times is the habit of spending less than we earn. Wealth comes oftener from decreasing our wants than from increasing our income. A real sign of growing sense is learning to reduce expenses.
~quotes on Wealth by
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
~sayings on Animal Rights by Rue McClanahan
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
~quotations on Attitude by Charles Buxton
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
~motivational work quotes by Robert Cody
The body never lies.
~saying about work by Martha Graham
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
~quote about Environment by Buddha
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
~quotes on Writing by Don Marquis
No one does anything from a single motive
~sayings on Motivation by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.
~quotations on Baseball by Andre Dawson, on Montreal
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
~motivational work quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
~saying about work by Charles Lamb
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
~quote about Nature by Wendell Berry
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
~quotes on Attitude by Dalai Lama
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
~sayings on Ignorance by Josh Billings
A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people,``living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
~quotations on Living by Albert Einstein
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
~motivational work quotes by Jules Renard, Journal, 1906
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
~saying about work by Aldous Huxley, Island
A house without books is like a room without windows
~quote about Books by Horace Mann
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
~quotes on Labor by Henry van Dyke
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