We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
~quote about Pleasure by Sydney J. Harris
In solitude, where we are least alone.
~quotes on Solitude by George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has.
~sayings on Success by Alan Kay
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
~quotations on College by David Wood
Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.
~sales motivational quotes by Lou Krieger
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~saying about sales by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
~quote about People by Walt Whitman
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
~quotes on Clothing by Henry David Thoreau
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book
~sayings on Teacher Appreciation by Author Unknown
You are a fortunate person, indeed, if you can begin each day accepting the fact that during that day there will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones, disappointments, surprises, unexpected turns of events.
~quotations on Attitude by Roy Benjamin
Half the world’s troubles come from saying yes too soon and to often and no too late and to seldom.
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The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.
~saying about sales by Leo J. Burke
Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?
~quote about Cats by Karen Brademeyer
One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.
~quotes on Wisdom by Edward C. Steadman
He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece
~sayings on Housewarming by William Shakespeare, King Lear
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
~quotations on Attitude by Winston Churchill
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
~sales motivational quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination
~saying about sales by Grace Lichtenstein
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
~quote about Integrity by George Washington
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
~quotes on Attitude by Helen MacInness
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
~sayings on Autumn by Stanley Horowitz
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
~quotations on Women by G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 1910
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
~sales motivational quotes by Dinah Shore
Just around the corner in every woman's mind - is a lovely dress, a wonderful suit, or entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her.
~saying about sales by Wilhela Cushman
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring
~quote about Groundhog Day by W.J. Vogel
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~quotes on Adversity by Edwin Markham
An apology is a good way to have the last word
~sayings on I'm Sorry by Author Unknown
Love is being stupid together
~quotations on Valentine's Day by Paul Valery
To a runner, a side stich is like a car alarm. It signifies something is wrong, but you ignore it until it goes away.
~sales motivational quotes by Author Unknown
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
~saying about sales by Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
~quote about Running by Esa Tikkannen, 1979
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
~quotes on Relationship by Albert Camus
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved?
~sayings on Curmudgeons by Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
~quotations on Smoking by Mark Twain
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did
~sales motivational quotes by Malcolm Forbes
A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give Him cash.
~saying about sales by Robert E. Harris, Laugh with the Circuit Rider
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said No.
~quote about Sex by Woody Allen
Why does everybody stand up and sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame when they're already there?
~quotes on Baseball by Larry Anderson
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