Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
~quote about Optimism Pessimism by Gil Stern
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
~quotes on Forgiveness by Sydney Harris
El tiempo da buen consejo.
~sayings on Time by Proverb
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
~quotations on Attitude by Pearl Bailey
The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.
~short love saying by Thomas Jefferson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind
~saying about short by Samuel Johnson
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
~quote about Men by Camille Paglia
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
~quotes on Self Improvement by John Ruskin
He stands in history as the completer of the globe
~sayings on Columbus Day by John Sterling
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
~quotations on Confidence by Sydney Smith
Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved
~short love saying by Christopher Paul Rubero
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
~saying about short by Aeschylus
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
~quote about Chakras by Carl G. Jung
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
~quotes on Money by John Wesley
Likes attract each other. As water runs to the sea, money runs to the rich.
~sayings on Wealth by
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
~quotations on Jesus Christ by Napoleon Bonaparte
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
~short love saying by Leon Lederman
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
~saying about short by Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
~quote about by John Taylor
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be here, but you will have ceased to live
~quotes on Dreams by Nancy Astor
By daily dying I have come to be.
~sayings on Philosophical by Theodore Roethke
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
~quotations on Self by Laurence van der Post
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.
~short love saying by -Steven Wright
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.
~saying about short by Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
~quote about Politics by George Jean Nathan
I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!
~quotes on Technology by Author Unknown
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
~sayings on Photography by Richard Avedon
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
~quotations on Goals by Beverly Sills
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
~short love saying by Johnny Carson
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.
~saying about short by Louis Simpson
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
~quote about Philosophical by G.C. Lichtenberg
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
~quotes on Stress by Jennifer Yane
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~sayings on Smiles by Mark Twain, Following the Equator
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it
~quotations on Mothers Day by Jean Kerr
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
~short love saying by James Dent
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
~saying about short by George Bernard Shaw
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other....
~quote about Vegetarianism by Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
~quotes on Hawww by Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Other Shore
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