Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
~quote about Relationship by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs?
~quotes on Courage by Marvin Kitman
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
~sayings on Age by Franklin P. Adams
Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.
~quotations on Entrepreneurism by Jim Rohn
Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.
~never good enough quote by Panchatantra
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey
~saying about never enough by Kenji Miyazawa
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?
~quote about Animal Rights by Pierre Troubetzkoy
Save when prosperous. There’s little fear of overspending when we’re not.
~quotes on Financial by
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in loveI'd stepped in it a few times
~sayings on Valentine's Day by Rita Rudner
Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future a vision based on common values -- is only training
~quotations on Future by Nido Qubein
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
~never good enough quote by William James
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
~saying about never enough by Le Duc de Lévis, Mémoires
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
~quote about Dieting by George Bernard Shaw
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
~quotes on Letters by Samuel Johnson
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
~sayings on Humankind by Erich Fromm, Man for Himself, 1947
History is philosophy teaching by examples.
~quotations on History by Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order
~never good enough quote by Will Durant
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
~saying about never enough by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~quote about Living by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The supreme philosophy is fortitude, self-mastery. To become a money master, or success master, we must first become self-masters.
~quotes on Self Discipline by
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
~sayings on Happiness by Barbara De Angelis
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
~quotations on Business by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
~never good enough quote by W.C. Fields
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
~saying about never enough by Herbert Prochnow
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
~quote about Art by Ben Jonson
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
~quotes on History by Will Rogers
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Dead Poet's Society
~sayings on Poetry by
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
~quotations on Baseball by Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
~never good enough quote by Vita Sackville-West
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly
~saying about never enough by Branch Rickey
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~quote about Haste by Lao Tzu
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
~quotes on Integrity by Michel de Montaigne, translated
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
~sayings on Science by Jean Rostand
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.
~quotations on Conformity by Logan Pearsall Smith
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
~never good enough quote by Diderot, Pensées philosophiques, 1746
Clapping with the right hand only will not produce a noise.
~saying about never enough by Malay
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
~quote about Age by Herbert Asquith
To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.
~quotes on Feminism by Spanish Proverb
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