When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.
~quote about America by Vine Deloria, Jr.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
~quotes on Writing by Baltasar Gracián
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
~sayings on Love by Henry Louis Mencken
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
~quotations on Courage by Carl Sandburg
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
~romeo and juliet famous quotes by Bill Nye, History of the United States
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.
~saying about romeojuliet by Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
~quote about Brevity by David Belasco
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
~quotes on College by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
~sayings on God by Erik Satie
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
~quotations on Patriotism by Mark Twain
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
~romeo and juliet famous quotes by Lin Yutang
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
~saying about romeojuliet by Logan Pearsall Smith
The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
~quote about Adversity by Morris Mandel
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
~quotes on Love by Frank A. Clark
I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity.
~sayings on Quotations by Erkki Melartin
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back
~quotations on Adversity by Author Unknown
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
~romeo and juliet famous quotes by Oscar Levant
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
~saying about romeojuliet by Norman Cousins
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
~quote about Fathers by Author Unknown
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
~quotes on Books Reading by Andrew Ross
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.
~sayings on Soccer by George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress
~quotations on Christmas by May Sarton
You have come into a hard worldI know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave
~romeo and juliet famous quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
~saying about romeojuliet by David T. Wolf
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
~quote about Pleasure by Jean de Boufflers
I can give you 1040 good reasons why I hate the government.
~quotes on Taxes by Terri Guillemets
Envy is ignorance.
~sayings on Jealousy by Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.
~quotations on Goals by Author Unknown
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
~romeo and juliet famous quotes by E.M. Forster
You know you're an Arizona native when... a rainy day puts you in a good mood.
~saying about romeojuliet by Marshall Trimble, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
~quote about Flirtation by François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them
~quotes on Thanksgiving Day by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
~sayings on Soul by Henry David Thoreau
It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it.
~quotations on School by Finley Peter Dunne
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
~romeo and juliet famous quotes by Paul Harvey
May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!
~saying about romeojuliet by Daniel Webster
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
~quote about Conformity by George Bernard Shaw
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
~quotes on Grandparents by Andy Rooney
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