A woman is like a tea bag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
~quote about Feminism by Carl Sandburg
Peace comes from within: Do not seek it without.
~quotes on Happiness by Buddha
Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley.
~sayings on Clothing by Author Unknown
I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.
~quotations on Religion by Tony Kushner, Angels in America
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
~short motivational quotes by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
~saying about short by W.C. Fields
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
~quote about Sleep by Colette
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
~quotes on Death by Marcel Proust
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.
~sayings on Cats by Hazel Nicholson
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
~quotations on School by P.J. O'Rourke
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live
~short motivational quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
~saying about short by Abraham Lincoln
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
~quote about Truth by William James
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
~quotes on Animal Rights by George Orwell, Animal Farm
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
~sayings on Courage by John Wayne
The basic principles of success have been passed on to us by men who came before us.
~quotations on Career by
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~short motivational quotes by George Santayana
Its’ not our drinking that gets us stinking; It’s our stinking thinking that gets us drinking.
~saying about short by
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
~quote about Marriage by Doug Larson
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
~quotes on Integrity by Logan Pearsall Smith
It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
~sayings on Miscellaneous by Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
~quotations on Women by Oscar Wilde
There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.
~short motivational quotes by Robert Benchley
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
~saying about short by W.E. Johns, The Passing Show
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
~quote about Conformity by S.I. Hayakawa
My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.
~quotes on Marriage by Jerry Hall
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
~sayings on Freedom by Joseph Addison
No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
~quotations on Music by W.H. Auden, Time, 29 December 1961
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it
~short motivational quotes by Clarence Budington Kelland
Let no sleep fall upon your eyes until you’re reviewed the acts of the day. What did I forgot or do wrong? Think up a way to avoid it in the future. What more could I have done or done better? Asking questions of yourself impels you to think for the answers.
~saying about short by
Make the most of the fact that life is always changing. Change it for the better.
~quote about Family by Ralph Marston
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
~quotes on Children by Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity
~sayings on Adversity by Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.
~quotations on Prosperity by Groucho Marx
Love someone who doesn't deserve it.
~short motivational quotes by Author Unknown
Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
~saying about short by James McNeill Whistler, Whistler Versus Ruskin, 1878
You lose a lot of time, hating people.
~quote about Hate by Marian Anderson
Weigh twice what you can only decide once. Caution is wisdom’s elder sister. Measure twice before you saw once. Take a second look. It costs nothing.
~quotes on Maturing Altruistically by
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