Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
~quote about America by Woodrow Wilson
In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.
~quotes on Complaining by Author Unknown
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
~sayings on Technology by Al Boliska
If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains.
~quotations on Self-Discovery by Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerm
Make your thinking orderly and free from emotional overtones, and you will see people and things as they are, with clarity and charity
~sayings on friendship by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
~saying about friendship by Thomas de Quincey
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
~quote about Horses by Nicholas Evans
The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.
~quotes on Grandparents by Dave Barry
How beautiful a day can be, When kindness touches it!
~sayings on Sweetest Day by George Elliston
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
~quotations on Science by Celia Green, The Decline and Fall of Science, 1972
They were starting to hit the dry side of the ball
~sayings on friendship by Lew Burdette
Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.
~saying about friendship by Dave Barry, Why Humor Is Funny
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
~quote about Religion by Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
~quotes on Responsibility by Woodrow Wilson
A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
~sayings on Faces by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
~quotations on Children by Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made
~sayings on friendship by Antoine de Saint
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
~saying about friendship by Robert Fulghum
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were
~quote about Housewarming by Author Unknown
Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.
~quotes on History by John Dewey, Characters and Events
Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.
~sayings on Drugs by P.J. O'Rourke
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
~quotations on Speaking by George Barzan
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say no to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
~sayings on friendship by Louis Lecoin
Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely
~saying about friendship by Unknown
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
~quote about Politics by Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
~quotes on Mothers by Golda Meir
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
~sayings on Jealousy by Ovid
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you
~quotations on Missing You by Richard Wilbur
Kindness is for all times in all situations -- not just when it suits you.
~sayings on friendship by Audray Landrum
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
~saying about friendship by Barry Switzer
Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler.
~quote about Sports by Author Unknown
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
~quotes on Ignorance by Bob Edwards
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
~sayings on Diplomacy by Henry Wotton, Reliquię Wottonianę
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next
~quotations on Patriot Day by Mignon McLaughlin
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
~sayings on friendship by Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
~saying about friendship by W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
~quote about Sports by Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
War! that mad game the world so loves to play.
~quotes on War by Jonathan Swift
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