No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
~quote about Being Yourself by John Morley
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
~quotes on Vegetarianism by Rita Rudner
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
~sayings on Hawww by W.S. Merwin
Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.
~quotations on Light by Sven Nykvist
I'm on my way to the airport to catch a plane that leaves in 45 minutes. The traffic is not moving one inch. I am now fascinated - not frustrated, but fascinated. But I must admit, it doesn't work every time.
~quote on good byes by Jim Rohn
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul
~saying about byes by Michel de Montaigne
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
~quote about Society by Havelock Ellis
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
~quotes on Kindness by Saint Vincent de Paul
Make your optimism come true.
~sayings on Attitude by Author Unknown
I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days.
~quotations on Dieting by Author Unknown
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west
~quote on good byes by Richard Jeni
Well done is better than well said.
~saying about byes by Benjamin Franklin
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
~quote about Marriage by Dr. James C. Dobson
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone
~quotes on Luck by Orison Swett Marden
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
~sayings on Feminism by Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
~quotations on Effort by Author Unknown
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't workSomeone would leaveSomeone always leavesThen we would have to say good-byeI hate good-byesI know what I needI need more hello
~quote on good byes by Charles M. Schulz
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
~saying about byes by Napoleon Hill
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
~quote about Goals by Douglas Adams
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
~quotes on Letters by Lady Bird Johnson
Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.
~sayings on Quotations by Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims, 1825
One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
~quotations on Sports by Abe Lemmons
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe.
~quote on good byes by Joseph W. Beach
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
~saying about byes by Confucius
Reading wise tips creates a vision of great new life.
~quote about Proverbs by
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
~quotes on Libraries by Germaine Greer
Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
~sayings on Life by James Gibbons Huneker
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.
~quotations on Mothers by D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
~quote on good byes by Thomas Jefferson
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.
~saying about byes by James L. Framo, Explorations in Marital & Family Therapy
Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
~quote about Winter by Plutarch, Moralia
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
~quotes on Experience. by Clarence Day, The Crow's Nest
For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.
~sayings on Smoking by Jay Leno
Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales.
~quotations on Insults by Mark Twain
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
~quote on good byes by Jules Renard
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life
~saying about byes by Herbert Asquith
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business
~quote about Graduation by Henry Ford
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human
~quotes on For a Friend by George Santayana
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