That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
~quote about Books Reading by Amos Bronson Alcott
When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
~quotes on Adversity by Leslie Grossman
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
~sayings on Laughter by Friedrich Nietzsche
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
~quotations on Computers by Marcus Dolengo
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~true love quote by Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism, Psychological Observations, 1851
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
~saying about love by Vine Deloria, Jr.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
~quote about Libraries by George Mercer Dawson
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
~quotes on Mistakes by Edward Phelps
I drink only to make my friends seem interesting.
~sayings on Alcohol by Don Marquis
I dropped a tear in the oceanThe day you find it is the day I will stop missing you
~quotations on Missing You by Author Unknown
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets
~true love quote by Erma Bombeck
Never let the hand you hold, hold you down.
~saying about love by Author Unknown
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
~quote about Imagination by Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962
Every path hath a puddle
~quotes on Adversity by George Herbert, "Jacula Prudentum"
A dozen fine qualities are not enough to make up for the lack of money.
~sayings on Financial by
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet.
~quotations on Dieting by Lewis C. Henry
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
~true love quote by Gene Perret
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
~saying about love by Mark Twain
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
~quote about Goals by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
~quotes on Conformity by Henrik Ibsen
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
~sayings on Humorous by Elayne Boosler
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity
~quotations on Adversity by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell
God is closest to those with broken hearts.
~true love quote by Jewish Saying
Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?
~saying about love by From the television show The Golden Girls
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
~quote about Humankind by David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978
Every day say to yourself: something good is going to happen to me today.
~quotes on Attitude by
Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming.
~sayings on Carpe Diem by Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Minor Poems, Copa
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
~quotations on History by Allen Nevins
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
~true love quote by Gabriel Meurier, Trésor des sentences
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~saying about love by Theodore Roosevelt
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
~quote about Love by Javan
A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery.
~quotes on Women by Diana Stürm
It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.
~sayings on Attitude by Robert M. Pirsig
To help people most, never share your riches, help them discover their own.
~quotations on Wealth by
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
~true love quote by George Chapman
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
~saying about love by Richard Bach
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around
~quote about Sweetest Day by Leo Buscaglia
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
~quotes on Writing by Joseph Heller
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