Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
~quote about Health by Tommy Smothers
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
~quotes on Boredom by C.C. Colton
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~sayings on Self Improvement by Aldous Huxley
Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty
~quotations on Women's Greetings by James Thurber, Time, 15 August 1960
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
~sad love quote by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
~saying about sad by Samuel Johnson
[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
~quote about Poetry by Robert Frost, The Figure a Poem Makes, Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
~quotes on Parenting by Colette, My Mother's House, 1922
Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord.
~sayings on Religion by Donald Morgan
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, where mother is.
~quotations on Mothers by Keith L. Brooks
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
~sad love quote by Washington Irving
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
~saying about sad by Isak Dinesen
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
~quote about Fishing by Roderick Haig-Brown, Fisherman's Spring, 1951
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.
~quotes on Conformity by Raymond E. Feist
Courage is a kind of salvation.
~sayings on Courage by Plato
On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.
~quotations on Wise Words by Confucian Analects
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than hutsNo Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving
~sad love quote by H.U. Westermayer
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
~saying about sad by Louis Céline, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
~quote about Television by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
~quotes on Courage by Thomas Fuller
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.
~sayings on Thinking by Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
~quotations on Patriotism by Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
~sad love quote by James Matthew Barrie
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
~saying about sad by Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, popularly misattributed to Samuel Johnson
For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
~quote about Tattoos by Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
~quotes on Speeches by Henry Ward Beecher
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
~sayings on Gardens by Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
~quotations on Curiosity by Albert Einstein
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.
~sad love quote by Boy George
They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe
~saying about sad by Edward Westcott
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
~quote about Faith by Author Unknown
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~quotes on Passion by Benjamin Franklin
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things
~sayings on Motivation by Frank A. Clark
Who kept the faith and fought the fight;The glory theirs, the duty ours.
~quotations on Memorial Day by Wallace Bruce
I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.
~sad love quote by Adriano Tilgher
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
~saying about sad by Woody Allen
The value of compassion cannot be overemphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
~quote about Attitude by Arthur H. Stainback
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
~quotes on Art by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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