A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
~quote about Mind by Cicero
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
~quotes on Sports by Bob Hope
History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.
~sayings on History by Konrad Adenauer
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
~quotations on Miscellaneous by Walter Gropius
Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
~sad love saying poems by Robin Morgan
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
~saying about sad poems by Francis Bacon, Of Death
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
~quote about Body by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
~quotes on Living by Edna Ferber
An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
~sayings on Age by Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March 1954
To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness.
~quotations on Psychology by Fyodor Dostoevski
Never strike your wife - even with a flower.
~sad love saying poems by Hindu Proverb
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
~saying about sad poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
~quote about Quotations by Hesketh Pearson
Turn your wounds into wisdom
~quotes on Adversity by Oprah Winfrey
God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.
~sayings on God by Andrew Dhuse
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~quotations on Perseverance by Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
~sad love saying poems by Ernie Kovacs
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.
~saying about sad poems by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right
~quote about Election Day by H.L. Mencken, 1956
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present.
~quotes on History by David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country
It ain't nothin' till I call it.
~sayings on Baseball by Bill Klem, umpire
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks
~quotations on Valentine's Day by Natalie Clifford Barney
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
~sad love saying poems by Mary C. Crowley
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
~saying about sad poems by André Gide, Nourritures Terrestres
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
~quote about Learning by Mohammed
If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
~quotes on Cats by Nan Porter
Friends are born, not made
~sayings on Friends by Henry Adams
The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.
~quotations on America by William Ralph
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
~sad love saying poems by G.M. Trevelyan
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
~saying about sad poems by Erma Bombeck
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
~quote about Conformity by Michael Korda
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
~quotes on Light by Ben Sweetland
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
~sayings on Thinking by Henry Van Dyke
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
~quotations on Photography by Ansel Adams
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
~sad love saying poems by Michael Fox, Sierra, November-December 1990
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.
~saying about sad poems by P.J. O'Rourke
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
~quote about Art by Jean Paul Richter
Children are all foreigners.
~quotes on Family by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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