Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
~quote about Imagination by Stephen Leacock
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~quotes on Feminism by Anaïs Nin
The hardest work is to go idle.
~sayings on Idleness by Yiddish Proverb
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
~quotations on Brevity by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Well, said Pooh, what I like best, and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
~the good earth quotes by A.A. Milne
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
~saying about the earth by Henny Youngman
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
~quote about Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, May 1849
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
~quotes on Adversity by Truman Capote
You can't have everything... where would you put it?
~sayings on Humorous by Steven Wright
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.
~quotations on Gambling by Heywood Broun
If male homosexuals are called gay, then female homosexuals should be called ecstatic.
~the good earth quotes by Shelly Roberts
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
~saying about the earth by Woodrow Wilson
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself
~quote about Adversity by Russian Proverb
I never saw a discontented treeThey grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we doThey go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the s
~quotes on Arbor Day by John Muir
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
~sayings on Humility by Frank Leahy, Look, 10 January 1955
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, He who hates vice hates mankind.
~quotations on Vices by W. MacNeile Dixon
There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.
~the good earth quotes by Alfred Capus
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
~saying about the earth by Author Unknown
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
~quote about Attitude by Robert Frost
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~quotes on Happiness by Albert Schweitzer
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~sayings on Beauty by Walt Whitman
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
~quotations on Men by Golda Meir
Every burned book enlightens the world.
~the good earth quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
~saying about the earth by John Lubbock
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
~quote about Wise Words by Buddha
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 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Franklin Thomas
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?
~sayings on Missing You by Nicholas Rowe
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
~quotations on Trees by James Russell Lowell
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men
~the good earth quotes by Joseph Conrad
Man was predestined to have free will.
~saying about the earth by Hal Lee Luyah
Take away love and our earth is a tomb
~quote about Valentine's Day by Robert Browning
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
~quotes on Flag Day by Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner
The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.
~sayings on Skiing by Tim Cahill
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
~quotations on Memory by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.
~the good earth quotes by Earl Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968
[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
~saying about the earth by Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
~quote about Helping by Thomas Carlyle
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
~quotes on Dogs by Milan Kundera
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