There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.
~quote about Psychology by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
~quotes on Happiness by V.S. Pritchett
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
~sayings on Women by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial
~quotations on Friends by Thomas Jefferson
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
~quotes about being in love by P.J. O'Rourke
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~saying about being in by Dalai Lama
Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.
~quote about Medical by Martin H. Fischer
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
~quotes on Age by Timothy Leary
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
~sayings on Tea by Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.
~quotations on Manners by J.S. Farynski
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence
~quotes about being in love by Alcibiades
Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes?
~saying about being in by Chang Chan-Pao
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
~quote about Religion by Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.
~quotes on Time by Charles Caleb Colton
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
~sayings on Jewelry by Kahlil Gibran
I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees.
~quotations on Sports by Jonathan Davies, 1995
I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second gradeBut considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose
~quotes about being in love by Ellen Orleans
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
~saying about being in by Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
~quote about Medical by Martin H. Fischer
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
~quotes on Women by Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956
Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature.
~sayings on Poker by David A Daniel
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
~quotations on Religion by Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
~quotes about being in love by John C. Collins
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
~saying about being in by Theodore Roosevelt
Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.
~quote about Taxes by Gerald Barzan
If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams.
~quotes on Conformity by Clive Barker
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
~sayings on Poetry by Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957
Inspiration seldom generates action, actions always create inspiration, do something – anything.
~quotations on Self Discipline by
A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
~quotes about being in love by Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein
This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hopeSo it was in the beginningSo it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith
~saying about being in by Lyndon B. Johnson
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
~quote about Freedom by Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role
~quotes on Celebrity by Boy George
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
~sayings on History by Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
~quotations on Dieting by Author Unknown
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain
~quotes about being in love by Robert A. Heinlein
We can never do a kindness too soon because we never know how soon it will be too late.
~saying about being in by
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.
~quote about Tea by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.
~quotes on Money by Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?
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