Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
~quote about Vegetarianism by Bill Griffith, Griffith Observatory comic strip, 1977
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
~quotes on Experience. by Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910
[P]atriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime
~sayings on Patriotic by Adlai Stevenson
Where is the "good" in goodbye?
~quotations on Goodbye by Author Unknown
Bygone troubles are good to tell.
~romantic love quotes letter by Yiddish Proverb
I considered atheism, but there weren't enough holidays.
~saying about romantic letter by Author Unknown
The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
~quote about Helping by Leo Rosten
Hating people is like burning your own house to get rid of a rat.
~quotes on Attitude by Harry Fosdick
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
~sayings on Living by Author Unknown
All obstacles are power generators.
~quotations on Attitude by
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
~romantic love quotes letter by Native American Wisdom
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
~saying about romantic letter by Mae West
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
~quote about Sex by Zsa Zsa Gabor
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
~quotes on Anger by Sydney J. Harris
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.
~sayings on Light by Michael Strassfeld
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
~quotations on Helping by Karl Reiland
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
~romantic love quotes letter by George F. Will, The Leveling Wind
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves
~saying about romantic letter by John Bulwer
[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.
~quote about Baseball by Jimmy Cannon
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire PR officers.
~quotes on Funny Saying by Daniel J. Boorstin
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
~sayings on History by Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors
Julian Dicks is everywhere, it's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field
~quotations on Football by Unknown
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
~romantic love quotes letter by Erik H. Erikson
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.
~saying about romantic letter by Percy William Bridgman, The Way Things Are
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~quote about Religion by Dalai Lama
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~quotes on Goals by Eleanor Roosevelt
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other
~sayings on New Year by Author Unknown
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
~quotations on Growth by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
~romantic love quotes letter by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
~saying about romantic letter by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
~quote about Justice by Wendell Phillips
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
~quotes on Censorship by Voltaire
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle
~sayings on Election Day by Alexis de Tocqueville
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
~quotations on Kindness by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
~romantic love quotes letter by Dave Barry
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
~saying about romantic letter by Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor!
~quote about Flowers by Colette
Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generatio
~quotes on Memorial Day by W.J. Cameron
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