When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
~quote about Growth by Phyllis Bottome
You can’t keep a man from doing wrong until you keep him from thinking wrong.
~quotes on Responsibility by
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
~sayings on Wise Words by Samuel Johnson
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
~quotations on Education by Tallulah Bankhead
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
~sad love quotes by Robert Frost
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
~saying about sad by Jorge Luis Borges
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive
~quote about I'm Sorry by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.
~quotes on Golf by Bob Bruce, about the senior tour
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
~sayings on Trees by J.J. Furnas
Investing is simple, but not easy
~quotations on Money by Warren Buffet
I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
~sad love quotes by George Gissing
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
~saying about sad by William Feather
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
~quote about Wise Words by Irish Proverb
The moment a man knows he's going to die, he feels afraid yet their's a feeling of peace inside of him. But when he knows that he's living forever, he's excited for a day, but terrified, annoyed, bored & alone forever!!!
~quotes on Living by Sarah N
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
~sayings on Risk by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
~quotations on Perspective by Dawn French
A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
~sad love quotes by George D. Prentice
Hitting is 50% above the shoulders
~saying about sad by Ted Williams
Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes.
~quote about Vegetarianism by Gerald Lieberman
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team
~quotes on Basketball by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
~sayings on Grammar by Richard C. Trench
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
~quotations on Vegetarianism by Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
~sad love quotes by Franklin P. Jones
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
~saying about sad by James Thurber
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind
~quote about Mankind by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English author
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
~quotes on Happiness by Zig Ziglar
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
~sayings on Life by Dennis Wholey
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
~quotations on Education by Martin H. Fischer
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at batThen fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's moundPut first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three togetherOf course, in case of rain, you gott
~sad love quotes by Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.
~saying about sad by Michael P. Garafalo, gardendigest.com
We grow great by dreams ... Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true
~quote about Dreams by Woodrow Wilson
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
~quotes on Civilization by Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip
~sayings on Birthday Sayings by Unknown
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
~quotations on Justice by S.I. Hayakawa
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~sad love quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
~saying about sad by Usman B. Asif
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become
~quote about Friendship by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes
~quotes on Adversity by Francis Bacon
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