The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a hoot for progress.
~quote about Religion by Emmet F. Fields
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the Four F's: fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.
~quotes on Sex by Unknown psychology professor in neuropsychology course
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
~sayings on Gratitude by G.B. Stern
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
~quotations on Taxes by Thomas Paine
I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning.
~quotes on love by Daniel D. Mich
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
~saying about love by Bill Vaughn
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
~quote about Sex by Casey Stengel
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
~quotes on Dancing by D.H. Lawrence
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
~sayings on Attitude by English Proverb
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
~quotations on Books Reading by W. Somerset Maugham
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
~quotes on love by Wynn Bullock
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
~saying about love by Arthur James Balfour
Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards.
~quote about Tennis by Eugene Scott
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
~quotes on Marriage by Groucho Marx
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
~sayings on Health by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
~quotations on Hair by Alexander Pope
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
~quotes on love by Michel de Montaigne, translated
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
~saying about love by Vince Lombardi
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
~quote about Writing by Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927
Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~quotes on Kindness by Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
~sayings on Honesty by Mark Twain
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~quotations on Happiness by buddha
Live simply that others might simply live.
~quotes on love by Elizabeth Seaton
It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
~saying about love by Chinese Proverb
May thy ball lie in green pastures... and not in still waters.
~quote about Golf by Author Unknown
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
~quotes on Jobs by Doug Larson
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
~sayings on History by John Smith
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand
~quotations on Business by Thomas Carlyle
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~quotes on love by John Donne
Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
~saying about love by Abbie Hoffman
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
~quote about Inner Child by Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
~quotes on Virtue by Voltaire
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
~sayings on Philosophical by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.
~quotations on Perspective by Curtis Billings
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
~quotes on love by Patrick F. McManus, Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1979
With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.
~saying about love by Art Hill
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
~quote about Reality by M.C. Escher
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifferenceIt is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is leftIt is the nativity of our common Adam
~quotes on New Year by Charles Lamb
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