Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals.
~quote about Writing by Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
~quotes on Vices by George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.
~sayings on Thinking by Author Unknown
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
~quotations on Society by Author Unknown
Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them.
~religious motivational quotes by Author Unknown
Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
~saying about religious by P.J. O'Rourke
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
~quote about Excuses by Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.
~quotes on Alcohol by Herman Jackrabbit Smith-Johannsen
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated
~sayings on Love Quotes by Alfred de Musset
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
~quotations on Learning by Chinese Proverb
Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
~religious motivational quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes.
~saying about religious by Erving Goffman
Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?
~quote about Morality by Martin H. Fischer
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
~quotes on Government by George Pataki
God was just showing off when he created you.
~sayings on Compliments by From the movie Keeping the Faith
There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.
~quotations on Taxes by Martin A. Sullivan
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
~religious motivational quotes by Truman Capote
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
~saying about religious by Edith Södergran
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
~quote about Haste by Matthew Arnold
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
~quotes on Goals by Doug Larson
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
~sayings on Imagination by Henry David Thoreau
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
~quotations on Worry by Benjamin Franklin
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
~religious motivational quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
~saying about religious by Paavo Nurmi
Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. [Coffee] is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat.
~quote about Caffeine by Author Unknown
There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.
~quotes on Society by Astrid Alauda, on the hot mom trend
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
~sayings on Grammar by Mark Twain
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention
~quotations on Thank You. by Oscar Wilde
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
~religious motivational quotes by Albert Einstein
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
~saying about religious by Robert Frost
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
~quote about Music by Benny Green
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free
~quotes on Freedom by Johann Wolfgang
We can’t choose our relatives, but we can choose our thoughts which influence us much more.
~sayings on Maturing Altruistically by
Moonlight is sculpture.
~quotations on Light by Nathaniel Hawthorne
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~religious motivational quotes by Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
~saying about religious by Sigmund Freud
Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents
~quote about Grandparents Day by Gene Perret
We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.
~quotes on Age by Margaret Atwood
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