There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
~quote about Charm by Henry Van Dyke
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
~quotes on Baseball by George Bernard Shaw
A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
~sayings on Hawww by Homer
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and nutty. You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.
~quotations on Education by Rev. Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
~movie quotes search by Richard Livingstone
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
~saying about movie search by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
~quote about Prayer by Guy H. King
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
~quotes on Humankind by George Bernard Shaw
Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.
~sayings on Walking by Henry David Thoreau
Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours.
~quotations on Carpe Diem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weeks and Works, 1578
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
~movie quotes search by Hugo L. Black
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
~saying about movie search by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
~quote about Life by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Short as life is, we make it shorter by wasting time.
~quotes on Living by
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings.
~sayings on Meetings by Dave Barry, Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn
God is the perfect poet.
~quotations on God by Robert Browning
If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are.
~movie quotes search by Anonymous
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
~saying about movie search by Author Unknown
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~quote about Attitude by Vince Lombardi
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
~quotes on Conformity by Christopher Morley
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
~sayings on Virtue by Charles Caleb Colton
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends
~quotations on Cute by Laurie Kuslansky
Time is the fire in which we burn.
~movie quotes search by Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day, 1937 (Thank you, George.)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~saying about movie search by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts.
~quote about Scrapbooking by Author Unknown
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
~quotes on Language by Samuel Johnson
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
~sayings on Honesty by Mark Twain
No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
~quotations on Society by Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
~movie quotes search by George Bernard Shaw
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
~saying about movie search by Emerson
Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
~quote about Curmudgeons by Bill Press
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
~quotes on Religion by George Santayana
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
~sayings on Animal Rights by S. Parkes Cadman
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
~quotations on Technology by Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999
[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
~movie quotes search by Hugh Sidey
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
~saying about movie search by Author Unknown
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
~quote about Books Reading by John Ruskin
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday
~quotes on Birthday Sayings by John Glenn
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