Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~quote about Society by Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950
God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.
~quotes on Pregnancy by Martin H. Fischer
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
~sayings on Marriage by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
~quotations on Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school? Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. Absolutely, the professor said. In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello. I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.
~romantic french sayings by Joann C. Jones
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
~saying about romantic french by Wernher Von Braun
Everybody has a powerful aid to success, riches, achievement: AUTO SUGGESTION.
~quote about Success by
Alice, you'd get more accomplished if you were less of a perfectionist. I've asked Wally to work with you - to teach you how to be less perfect
~quotes on Bureaucracy by Dilbert
Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.
~sayings on Age by Author Unknown
The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.
~quotations on Poetry by Robert Penn Warren, Saturday Review, 22 March 1958
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
~romantic french sayings by Donald Dowes
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
~saying about romantic french by Mother Teresa
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
~quote about Philosophy by John Keats
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
~quotes on Self by Katherine Anne Porter
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
~sayings on Funny Saying by Johnny Carson
Even the gods love jokes
~quotations on April Fool's Day by Plato
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
~romantic french sayings by Hugh Prather
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
~saying about romantic french by Albert Camus
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
~quote about Attitude by Kahlil Gibran
Modesty is the surest bait when fishing for praise.
~quotes on Relationship by
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~sayings on Helping by Nelson Henderson
We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow.
~quotations on Intelligence by Woodrow Wilson
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
~romantic french sayings by P.G. Wodehouse
Remember that time is money
~saying about romantic french by Benjamin Franklin
Painting is silent poetry.
~quote about Art by Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
~quotes on Compliments by Wilson Mizner
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
~sayings on Memory by Edward de Bono
The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
~quotations on Idleness by Author Unknown
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music
~romantic french sayings by Angela Monet
Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?
~saying about romantic french by Patrick Sky
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
~quote about Self by Confucius
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
~quotes on Wise Words by African Proverb
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
~sayings on History by Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
~quotations on Tea by Samuel Johnson
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity
~romantic french sayings by William Penn
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
~saying about romantic french by Orson Scott Card
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
~quote about Peace by J. Ramsay MacDonald
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
~quotes on War by Ernest Hemingway
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