A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
~quote about Stress by George Jean Nathan
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
~quotes on Carpe Diem by Annie Dillard
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others.
~sayings on Laziness by Oscar Wilde
It’s never smart to act better or wiser than those around us.
~quotations on Maturing Altruistically by
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
~really funny quote by Walter Savage Landor
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
~saying about really by Samuel Johnson
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit
~quote about Christmas by Kin Hubbard
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
~quotes on Christmas by Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Life is to be fortified by many friendships - to love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existense
~sayings on Love Sayings by Sydney Smith
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
~quotations on Courage by George Smith Patton
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yosThe presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize
~really funny quote by Saul Bellow
An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.
~saying about really by Yiddish Proverb
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.
~quote about History by Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences
Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.........
~quotes on Dreams by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
~sayings on Society by William Lloyd Garrison
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
~quotations on America by James Michener
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~really funny quote by Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness.
~saying about really by Fyodor Dostoevski
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.
~quote about Experience. by John Keats
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
~quotes on Marriage by James H. Boren
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.
~sayings on Living by Robert Nathan, So Love Returns
I've been failing for like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order
~quotations on Movie by Francis Ford Coppola
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
~really funny quote by John Burroughs
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
~saying about really by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.
~quote about Teachers by Louis Johannot
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
~quotes on Attitude by Nicholas Chamfort
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
~sayings on Changes by Stanislaw Lec
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
~quotations on Freedom by Charles de Gaulle
I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.
~really funny quote by Martin H. Fischer
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice poin
~saying about really by David Lloyd George
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
~quote about Media Journalism by Adlai E. Stevenson
Poverty is hard master but raise strong children.
~quotes on Family by
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
~sayings on Light by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
~quotations on Mothers by Washington Irving
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
~really funny quote by Mother Teresa
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
~saying about really by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
~quote about Media Journalism by Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
~quotes on Philosophical by H.L. Mencken
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