Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~quote about Patience by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
~quotes on Media Journalism by Ben Hecht
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
~sayings on Habits by St. Augustine
Everyone is the age of their heart.
~quotations on Age by Guatemalan Proverb
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
~quote on good character by Barbara De Angelis
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
~saying about character by Author Unknown
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
~quote about Media Journalism by Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel Macon
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love
~quotes on Love Quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
~sayings on Dancing by Author Unknown
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
~quotations on Religion by Alfred North Whitehead
The right wife drops not from the sky; she must be sought by studied eye.
~quote on good character by
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
~saying about character by Ward McAllister
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories
~quote about Love Sayings by Melanie Clark
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
~quotes on Attitude by Mohandas Gandhi
Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport.
~sayings on Skiing by Author Unknown
I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to
~quotations on Celebrity by Shaquille O'Neal
No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go. He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right.
~quote on good character by Bertrand Russell, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
~saying about character by Friedrich Nietzsche
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
~quote about Society by Erik Pepke
Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.
~quotes on Religion by E. Haldeman-Julius, The Church Is a Burden, Not a Benefit, In Social Life
Supreme joy comes from doing a kindness by stealth, and having it discovered by accident.
~sayings on Happiness by
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
~quotations on Mistakes by Eli Siegel
Mountain pose is an affirmation. You can conquer anything with your natural boldness and resolute strength. Only you can reach the peak of your success.
~quote on good character by Terri Guillemets
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~saying about character by Albert Einstein
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.
~quote about Carpe Diem by Hazel Lee
There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
~quotes on Self-Discovery by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground, 1864
Liberty means responsibilityThat is why most men dread it
~sayings on Independence Day by George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Liberty and Equality," 1905
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
~quotations on Perseverance by Author Unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock
~quote on good character by Arthur Goldberg
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great
~saying about character by Translation
Thrift costs nothing, but starts all fortunes.
~quote about Wealth by
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
~quotes on Age by Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
~sayings on Religion by Mark Twain
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever.
~quotations on Society by George Orwell
Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses.
~quote on good character by Ira Wallach
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
~saying about character by P.J. O'Rourke
Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection.
~quote about Sex by Author Unknown
Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.
~quotes on Housework by Anne Gibbons
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