One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
~quote about Letters by Lord Byron
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
~quotes on Art by Amy Lowell
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
~sayings on Psychology by Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
~quotations on Alcohol by William Shakespeare, Othello
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
~wedding love quote by Charles Dickens
If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using an outside agency and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
~saying about wedding by Henry Longhurst
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
~quote about Happiness by Charles L. Morgan
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
~quotes on Politics by James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
~sayings on Science by Henry David Thoreau
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: Look at this Godawful mess.
~quotations on Environment by Art Buchwald, 1970
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
~wedding love quote by William McGill
only god can judge me
~saying about wedding by Tupac Shakur
History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance.
~quote about History by R. Jackson Wilson
The end of labor is to gain leisure
~quotes on Labor Day by Aristotle
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
~sayings on Worry by Montaigne, Essays, 1588
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
~quotations on Hair by George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
Gone golfin'... be back dark thirty.
~wedding love quote by Author Unknown
What do you think of God, the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, He's not a think, he's a feel.
~saying about wedding by Paul Frost
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
~quote about Philosophical by Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
~quotes on Failure by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnightExtend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any rewardYour life will never be the same again
~sayings on Sweetest Day by Og Mandino
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
~quotations on Past by Virginia Woolf
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going
~wedding love quote by Beverly Sills
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.
~saying about wedding by Alice Meynell
You don't choose your familyThey are God's gift to you, as you are to them
~quote about Grandparents Day by Desmond Tutu
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.
~quotes on Advertising by Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
~sayings on Determination by Dale Carnegie
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private.
~quotations on Clothing by Elizabeth Wilson
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
~wedding love quote by Winston Churchill
Go put your creed into your deed.
~saying about wedding by Ralph Waldo Emerson
How can something bother you if you won't let it?
~quote about Adversity by Terri Guillemets
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
~quotes on Environment by Gil Stern
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.
~sayings on Gardens by Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.
~quotations on Life by William Lyon Phelps
The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men.
~wedding love quote by F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
~saying about wedding by Noam Chomsky
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened
~quote about Birthdays by Jennifer Yane
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
~quotes on Civil Disobedience by Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775
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