It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before.
~quote about Manners by F. Scott Fitzgerald
There was a star danced, and under that was I born
~quotes on Birth by William Shakespeare
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~sayings on Poverty by Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
~quotations on Family by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.
~sports motivational sayings by H.W. Lewis, Technological Risk, 1990
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown
~saying about sports by China Man
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
~quote about Health by Marcus Valerius Martial
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
~quotes on Racism by Franklin Thomas
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
~sayings on Environment by Ian McHarg
Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them? God said, I did do something. I made you.
~quotations on Helping by Author Unknown
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
~sports motivational sayings by John Adams
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
~saying about sports by Alice Walker
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
~quote about Censorship by John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
~quotes on Confidence by Veronica A. Shoffstall, After a While, 1971
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
~sayings on Peace by Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
~quotations on Wise Words by Texan Proverb
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out
~sports motivational sayings by Grace Pulpit
What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind
~saying about sports by Claudian
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
~quote about Living by Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
~quotes on Philosophical by Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1872
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
~sayings on Animal Rights by Thomas A. Edison
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
~quotations on Self-Determination by Sallust
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
~sports motivational sayings by Beryl Markham
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.
~saying about sports by Kin Hubbard
Too many develop every talent except the talent to use all other talents – will power.
~quote about Success by
Don't make excuses - make good.
~quotes on Excuses by Elbert Hubbard
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
~sayings on Money by Louis Agassiz
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
~quotations on Dogs by G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory.
~sports motivational sayings by Dewey Selmon
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
~saying about sports by Thomas Szasz
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
~quote about Art by John Lubbock
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
~quotes on Quotations by Miguel de Cervantes
I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
~sayings on Inner Child by Bob Seger, Against the Wind
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
~quotations on Music by Edward Elgar
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
~sports motivational sayings by Pearl S. Buck
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
~saying about sports by Benjamin Disraeli
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.
~quote about Kindness by Confucius
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.
~quotes on Dieting by Jean Kerr
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