War! that mad game the world so loves to play.
~quote about War by Jonathan Swift
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
~quotes on Apologies by P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
~sayings on Grandparents by Art Linkletter
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
~quotations on Humankind by William Ralph Inge
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
~scrapbook inspirational sayings by Groucho Marx
A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
~saying about scrapbook by Author Unknown
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
~quote about Inner Child by Pablo Picasso
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~quotes on Government by Denis Diderot
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
~sayings on Speaking by George Bernard Shaw
It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone
~quotations on Baseball by Bartlett Giamatti
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
~scrapbook inspirational sayings by Leopold von Ranke, History of the Popes
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
~saying about scrapbook by Author Unknown
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
~quote about Helping by John Wooden
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
~quotes on Changes by Francis Bacon
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
~sayings on Guests by Author Unknown
Never have children, only grandchildren.
~quotations on Grandparents by Gore Vidal
By the time a son realizes his father usually right, he has a son who thinks his father is usually wrong.
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Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
~saying about scrapbook by Kin Hubbard
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
~quote about Health by Charles Simmons
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
~quotes on Marriage by Gabriel García Márquez
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~sayings on Laughter by e.e. cummings
The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter.
~quotations on War by Reginald Wright Kauffman
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
~scrapbook inspirational sayings by Henrik Ibsen
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
~saying about scrapbook by Sigmund Freud
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
~quote about Politics by Will Rogers
The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing
~quotes on Retirement by Phyllis Diller
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
~sayings on Integrity by Thomas Jefferson, 1809
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.
~quotations on Age by Quoted by Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
~scrapbook inspirational sayings by American Saying
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
~saying about scrapbook by Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.
~quote about Love by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab notes
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge
~quotes on Mothers Day by Phyllis Diller
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
~sayings on Writing by Sinclair Lewis
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
~quotations on Carpe Diem by Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
~scrapbook inspirational sayings by Henry Ford
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.
~saying about scrapbook by Garrett Hardin
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
~quote about Wise Words by W. Migner
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
~quotes on Sisters by Clara Ortega
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