Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
~quote about Grandparents by Lewis Mumford
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
~quotes on Hypocrisy by Abraham Lincoln
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
~sayings on War by John F. Kennedy
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~quotations on Adversity by Rose F. Kennedy
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
~quotes from a few good man by Irish Proverb
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around.
~saying about from a few man by David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down, 1965
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide
~quote about Election Day by Meg Greenfield
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
~quotes on Solitude by Colette
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~sayings on Brevity by Dennis Roth
If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.
~quotations on Cats by Arthur Weigall
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality
~quotes from a few good man by Martin Luther King Jr.
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?
~saying about from a few man by Richard Bach
Marriage changes passion - suddenly you're in bed with a relative.
~quote about Marriage by Author Unknown
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
~quotes on Religion by Imamu Amiri Baraka
There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.
~sayings on Books Reading by Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
~quotations on Photography by Henri Cartier Bresson
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
~quotes from a few good man by Author Unknown
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
~saying about from a few man by Joan Baez
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
~quote about Genius by John F. Kennedy, in an address to Nobel Prize winners
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
~quotes on Marriage by George Jessel
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
~sayings on Marriage by Zsa Zsa Gabor
You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
~quotations on Media Journalism by Rose Maccaulay
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators.
~quotes from a few good man by Logan Pearsall Smith
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything
~saying about from a few man by Oscar Wilde
The days a man spends fishing or spends hunting should not be deducted from the time that he's on earth. In other words, if I fish today, that should be added to the amount of time I get to live. That's the way I look at recreation. That's why I'll be a big conservation, environmental President, because I plan to fish and hunt as much as I possibly can.
~quote about Environment by George Bush, quoted in Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1988
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home
~quotes on Birth by William Wordsworth
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
~sayings on Worry by Thomas Jefferson
Sports Do Not Build Character...They Reveal It
~quotations on Sports by John Wooden
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
~quotes from a few good man by Napoleon Hill
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity
~saying about from a few man by Robert A. Heinlein
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now
~quote about Birthdays by Author Unknown
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them
~quotes on Friends by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
~sayings on Anger by Louis L'Armour
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
~quotations on Technology by Henry David Thoreau
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
~quotes from a few good man by Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.
A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
~saying about from a few man by Joe DiMaggio, quoted in New York Times, 30 April 1961
One today is worth two tomorrows.
~quote about Maturing Altruistically by Benjamin Franklin
Don't question God, for He may reply: If you're so anxious for answers, come up here.
~quotes on God by Author Unknown
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