It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
~quote about Property by Bertrand Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1917
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
~quotes on Housework by Erma Bombeck
Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.
~sayings on Dogs by Corey Ford
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy
~quotations on Motivation by Dwight D. Eisenhower
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
~quote on life love and friends by Paul Erdos
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals love them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
~saying about life friends by Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953
A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.
~quote about Integrity by Martin H. Fischer
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparently ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
~quotes on Teachers by K. Patricia Cross
Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.
~sayings on Math by Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines
If cheerleading got any easier, it would be called football.
~quotations on Cheerleading by Author Unknown
Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions.
~quote on life love and friends by Christina Gerogiannis
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
~saying about life friends by Marie Louise De La Ramee
The rule was No autopsy, no foul.
~quote about Basketball by Stewart Granger, on the pickup games of his childhood
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
~quotes on Self-Discovery by Timothy Leary
Father: I wish I were half as great as my infant thinks I am, and only half as stupid as my teenager thinks I am.
~sayings on Family by
Yes, we are able!
~quotations on Success by Cesar Chavez
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
~quote on life love and friends by Rebecca West
When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.
~saying about life friends by John Edgar Wideman
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
~quote about Writing by Robert Benchley
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
~quotes on Math by S. Gudder
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
~sayings on Technology by R. Buckminster Fuller
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
~quotations on Marriage by Katharine Houghton Hepburn
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
~quote on life love and friends by Bonnie Prudden
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~saying about life friends by Rose F. Kennedy
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
~quote about Education by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
~quotes on Animal Rights by Mahatma Gandhi
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
~sayings on Sleep by Edward Lucas
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
~quotations on Soul by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942
Our success and happiness depends partly on our choice of friends, companions, associates, and co-workers. When possible, choose wisely.
~quote on life love and friends by
We stand or fall by our works. To get to the top, be the best at the bottom.
~saying about life friends by
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~quote about Failure by Mary Pickford
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
~quotes on Reality by John Steinbeck
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
~sayings on Virtue by George Orwell
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.
~quotations on Angels by Josh Billings
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
~quote on life love and friends by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
~saying about life friends by Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891
Literature is news that stays news.
~quote about Literature by Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934
The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.
~quotes on Self by Martin H. Fischer
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