What’s done with pleasure is done full measure. Forced effort tires us three times as fast as enthusiastic effort. One life’s richest blessings is DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY.
~quote about Career by
He loves his country best who strives to make it best
~quotes on Patriotic by Robert G. Ingersoll
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
~sayings on Carpe Diem by David Brin
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
~quotations on War by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
~romantic quotes in french by Ernest Hemingway
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
~saying about romantic in french by Pablo Picasso
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be sorry and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
~quote about Tennis by J.M. Barrie
A car is not the only thing that can be recalled by its maker
~quotes on Car by Unknown
When in doubt, wear red.
~sayings on Clothing by Bill Blass
Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, Will you look at that golf path? Pure pea gravel.
~quotations on Golf by Jeff Cesario
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
~romantic quotes in french by Leo Buscaglia
What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies
~saying about romantic in french by Aristotle
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
~quote about Self-Discovery by Zen Proverb
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
~quotes on Health by John Henry Cardinal Newman
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
~sayings on Religion by Bertrand Russell
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
~quotations on Nature by George Washington Carver
Every thought in consciousness has been born into form, a temporary form and then it dies and goes onto another form. You could say the whole world is consciousness having taken birth as form, manifesting as form temporarily, and then dying which means dissolving as form. What always remains is the essence of all that exists - consciousness itself
~romantic quotes in french by Eckhart Tolle
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
~saying about romantic in french by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
~quote about Patriotism by Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~quotes on Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
~sayings on Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.
~quotations on Religion by Edwin Arlington Robinson
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
~romantic quotes in french by Stewart Alsop
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
~saying about romantic in french by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
~quote about War by Holly Near
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.
~quotes on Humorous by Author Unknown
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
~sayings on Advertising by Norman Douglas, South Wind
Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.
~quotations on Health by Author Unknown
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
~romantic quotes in french by Nancy Mitford
One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.
~saying about romantic in french by Crates
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
~quote about Baseball by Don Drysdale, quoted in New York Times, 9 July 1979
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God
~quotes on Love Sayings by Beatrice Saunders
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
~sayings on Religion by Butch Hancock
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.
~quotations on Morality by Llewelyn Powys
No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.
~romantic quotes in french by Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
~saying about romantic in french by Merry Browne
Your anger is like the bubbles in a can of soda. The more you’re shaken, the more you want to let it out. The longer you keep it in though, the greater the size of the eventual explosion - and the flatter the drink at the end.
~quote about Success by Nisandeh Neta
Smoking can kill. If your dead, you've lost a very important part of your life.
~quotes on Humor by Melissa Stuart
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