What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
~quote about Labor by Arnold Glasow
Where did you come from, baby dear?Out of the Everywhere and into here.
~quotes on Baby by George MacDonald
History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler.
~sayings on History by Henry Glassie
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
~quotations on Television by Nicholas Johnson
One poor crop teaches us more than a book on farming.
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
~saying about origin of by Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
~quote about Government by John Kenneth Galbraith
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
~quotes on Labor by George Sheehan
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
~sayings on Responsibility by James Allen
Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.
~quotations on Caffeine by Alexander King
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floodsBut he cannot save them from fools
~origin of famous sayings by John Muir
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
~saying about origin of by Author Unknown
Some people always sigh in thanking God.
~quote about God by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
~quotes on Optimism Pessimism by Bill Vaughan
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
~sayings on Nature by Jane Austen
Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~quotations on Fear by Bertrand Russell
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't workOf course it doesn't workWe are supposed to work it
~origin of famous sayings by Alexander Woollcott
Every hero becomes a bore at last
~saying about origin of by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?
~quote about Golf by Peter Andrews
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
~quotes on Virtue by François de la Rochefoucauld
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~sayings on Beauty by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income
~quotations on Retirement by Chi Chi Rodriguez
A good slogan: LEARN HOW AND DO NOW.
~origin of famous sayings by
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies
~saying about origin of by Honore de Balzac
Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination
~quote about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Author Unknown
Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble.
~quotes on Women by Doctor Leon of drleons.com
[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
~sayings on History by Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
~quotations on Television by Rita Mae Brown
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
~origin of famous sayings by Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
~saying about origin of by Mark Twain
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~quote about Flowers by Ikkyu Sojun
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
~quotes on Religion by G.B. Shaw, Androcles and the Lion, 1912
The payment of taxes gives a right to protection.
~sayings on Taxes by James M. Wayne
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.
~quotations on Friendship by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Sharp words cut deeper than sharp swords.
~origin of famous sayings by
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
~saying about origin of by G.K. Chesterton
Mother's love grows by giving.
~quote about Mothers by Charles Lamb
The time you think you're missing, misses you too.
~quotes on Time by Ymber Delecto
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