I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.
~quote about Censorship by Nancie J. Carmody
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
~quotes on Hawww by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
~sayings on America by Alexis de Tocqueville
The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else – at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.
~quotations on Dreams by Paul MacCready
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
~wedding love quotes by Duffy Daugherty
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
~saying about wedding by Douglas Jerrold
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
~quote about Environment by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, 175
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
~quotes on Success by Irving Berlin
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.
~sayings on Compliments by John Addington Symonds
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
~quotations on Happiness by Andrew Delbanco
Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.
~wedding love quotes by Author Unknown
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.
~saying about wedding by Henry Miller
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
~quote about Parenting by George A. Dorsey
I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege.
~quotes on Poker by Jack Binion
Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.
~sayings on Horses by C.W. Anderson
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
~quotations on Life by Arthur Miller
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
~wedding love quotes by William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822
They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.
~saying about wedding by Jack Kerouac
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
~quote about Nostalgia by Alice Childress
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
~quotes on Risk by James Bryant Conant
What was good enough yesterday isn't good enough today
What's good enough today won't be good enough tomorrow
Good enaogh.....isn't!
~sayings on Unknown by
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
~quotations on Grammar by A.A. Milne
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn.
~wedding love quotes by W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.
~saying about wedding by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
~quote about Women by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
~quotes on Math by Carl Sandburg, Arithmetic
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us
~sayings on New Year by Hal Borland
I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.
~quotations on Basketball by Norm Sloan, on zone defense
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
~wedding love quotes by William Butler Yeats
Life is a series of collisions with the future.
~saying about wedding by José Ortega y Gasset
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
~quote about Money by George Savile, Complete Works, 1912
No man expects a great deal from marriage. He is quite satisfied if his wife is a good cook, a good valet, an attentive audience, and a patient nurse.
~quotes on Marriage by Author Unknown
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
~sayings on Perspective by Robert Green Ingersoll
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming
~quotations on Basketball by Charles Barkley
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship.
~wedding love quotes by George Wald, The Origin of Optical Activity, Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1975
Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
~saying about wedding by Francesco Petrarch
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference
~quote about Birth by Voltaire
Improvement begins with I.
~quotes on Helping by Arnold Glasow
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