We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
~quote about Conformity by Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
~quotes on Art by G.K. Chesterton
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
~sayings on Drugs by John Hardwick
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
~quotations on Brothers by Clara Ortega
He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
~sports motivational quote by Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Misanthrope
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
~saying about sports by Henry Ward Beecher
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.
~quote about Home by Frederick W. Robertson
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
~quotes on Alcohol by Author Unknown
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
~sayings on Money by Frank Hubbard
Platonic love is like an inactive volcano
~quotations on Love by Andre Pevost
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
~sports motivational quote by Harold Nicolson
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
~saying about sports by Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper, 1929 (Thank you, Jeff.)
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
~quote about Dental by William R. Alger
No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.
~quotes on Miscellaneous by Thomas Carlyle, Count Cagliostro, 1833
Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
~sayings on Grandparents by Author Unknown
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
~quotations on Soul by Octave Mirbeau
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.
~sports motivational quote by Author Unknown
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.
~saying about sports by Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
~quote about Manners by Eric Hoffer
Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.
~quotes on Sex by Author Unknown
A slip of the foot, you’ll soon recover; a slip of the tongue may last forever.
~sayings on Friendship by
Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
~quotations on Golf by Bob Hope
If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation?
~sports motivational quote by Author Unknown
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
~saying about sports by Herman Melville
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever
~quote about Birthdays by Don Marquis
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
~quotes on History by Pearl Buck
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
~sayings on Helping by Edmund Burke
Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.
~quotations on Clothing by Benny Hill
Boredom is a vital problem of the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it
~sports motivational quote by Bertrand Russell, philosopher and logician
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
~saying about sports by Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Misanthrope
You must be the change you wish to see in the world
~quote about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Mahatma Ghandi
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
~quotes on Passion by George Santayana
God gave burdens, also shoulders
~sayings on Patriot Day by Yiddish Proverb
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
~quotations on Humor by Mark Twain
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
~sports motivational quote by Mark Twain
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
~saying about sports by H.L. Mencken
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
~quote about Family by Ashleigh Brilliant
A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself.
~quotes on Justice by Lord Brougham
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