Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
~quote about Attitude by Dale Carnegie
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
~quotes on History by Alexis de Tocqeville, 1856
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
~sayings on Memory by Friedrich Nietzsche
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
~quotations on Speeches by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1845
You have to learn to treat people as a resource......you have to ask not what do they cost, but what is the yield, what can they produce?
~romantic love quotes by Peter F. Drucker
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it
~saying about romantic by Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
~quote about Memory by J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~quotes on Perseverance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
~sayings on Being Yourself by John Morley
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
~quotations on Vegetarianism by Rita Rudner
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
~romantic love quotes by W.S. Merwin
Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.
~saying about romantic by Sven Nykvist
I'm on my way to the airport to catch a plane that leaves in 45 minutes. The traffic is not moving one inch. I am now fascinated - not frustrated, but fascinated. But I must admit, it doesn't work every time.
~quote about Self Improvement by Jim Rohn
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul
~quotes on Veterans Day by Michel de Montaigne
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
~sayings on Society by Havelock Ellis
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
~quotations on Kindness by Saint Vincent de Paul
Make your optimism come true.
~romantic love quotes by Author Unknown
I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days.
~saying about romantic by Author Unknown
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west
~quote about Cool by Richard Jeni
Well done is better than well said.
~quotes on Famous Saying by Benjamin Franklin
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
~sayings on Marriage by Dr. James C. Dobson
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone
~quotations on Luck by Orison Swett Marden
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
~romantic love quotes by Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
~saying about romantic by Author Unknown
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't workSomeone would leaveSomeone always leavesThen we would have to say good-byeI hate good-byesI know what I needI need more hello
~quote about Goodbye by Charles M. Schulz
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
~quotes on Self Discipline by Napoleon Hill
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
~sayings on Goals by Douglas Adams
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
~quotations on Letters by Lady Bird Johnson
Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.
~romantic love quotes by Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims, 1825
One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
~saying about romantic by Abe Lemmons
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe.
~quote about Water by Joseph W. Beach
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
~quotes on Prosperity by Confucius
Reading wise tips creates a vision of great new life.
~sayings on Proverbs by
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
~quotations on Libraries by Germaine Greer
Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
~romantic love quotes by James Gibbons Huneker
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.
~saying about romantic by D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
~quote about Family by Thomas Jefferson
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.
~quotes on Marriage by James L. Framo, Explorations in Marital & Family Therapy
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