wise proverbs sayings

It is with our judgments as with our watches

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It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
~Author : Andre Gide Meaningful Sayings

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
~Author : Menander Wise Quotes

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
~Author : Alexander Pope Motivational Sayings

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
~Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Famous Quotes

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
~Author : Robert Lynd Inspirational Sayings

The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them.
~Author : Ossian Lang Nice Quotes

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed

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Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
~Author : David Hume Nice Quotes

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
~Author : Ted Williams Great Sayings

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
~Author : E M Forster Howards End Meaningful Sayings

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
~Author : Sir Walter Raleigh Wise Quotes

Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.
~Author : Woody Allen Motivational Sayings

A word to the wise is infuriating.
~Author : Hunter S Thompson Famous Quotes

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Inspirational Sayings

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character

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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
~Author : Henry Louis Mencken Famous Quotes

I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Inspirational Sayings

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
~Author : Johann Kaspar Lavater Nice Quotes

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
~Author : Meg Cabot Great Sayings

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
~Author : Orison Swett Marden Meaningful Sayings

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
~Author : Sri da Avabhas Wise Quotes

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. 'Legend' means, basically, 'bullshit.'
~Author : Joel Rosenberg Motivational Sayings

Jeremy Bentham Great Sayings

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
~Author : Aristotle Politics Nice Quotes

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
~Author : Jeremy Bentham Great Sayings

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
~Author : Jane Austen Mansfield Park Meaningful Sayings

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
~Author : Howard Schultz Wise Quotes

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
~Author : Derwood Fincher Motivational Sayings

Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.
~Author : Charles Lindberg Sr 1915 Famous Quotes

Mother Theresa Inspirational Sayings

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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
~Author : Mother Theresa Inspirational Sayings

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
~Author : John Dewey Nice Quotes

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
~Author : Will Rogers Autobiography 1949 chapter 6 Great Sayings

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
~Author : Bertolt Brecht Meaningful Sayings

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
~Author : A Bartlett Giamatti Wise Quotes

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
~Author : Theodore Roethke Motivational Sayings

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
~Author : Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac Famous Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi Famous Quotes

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We must become the change we want to see.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Famous Quotes

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~Author : Plato Inspirational Sayings

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Nice Quotes

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
~Author : Golda Meir Great Sayings

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
~Author : Sir Francis Bacon Meaningful Sayings

It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
~Author : Terry Pratchett Jingo Wise Quotes

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
~Author : William Osler Motivational Sayings

Practice is the best of all instructors.

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A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
~Author : Aristotle Rhetoric Nice Quotes

Yo soy un anima infeliz,Perdida en este mundo atormendo.
I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.
~Author : James A Michener Iberia Great Sayings

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Meaningful Sayings

I don't really trust a sane person.
~Author : Lyle Alzado Wise Quotes

Practice is the best of all instructors.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Motivational Sayings

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
~Author : Alexander Meigs Haig Famous Quotes

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
~Author : Calvin Coolidge Inspirational Sayings

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
~Author : Katherine Paterson Nice Quotes

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
~Author : Ovid Great Sayings

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
~Author : Hodding Carter Jr Meaningful Sayings

When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there.
~Author : Japanese Proverb Wise Quotes

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
~Author : William Shakespeare Othello Act 3 scene 3 Motivational Sayings

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~Author : Arthur Schopenhauer Famous Quotes

So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.

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No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
~Author : Robert Half Famous Quotes

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
~Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer New York Times Magazine Nov 26 1978 Inspirational Sayings

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.
~Author : unknown Nice Quotes

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
~Author : Saul Bellow Great Sayings

I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers.
~Author : George Mason Meaningful Sayings

So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
~Author : Lawrence Peter Berra Wise Quotes

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
~Author : Margaret Cho Motivational Sayings

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
(Dort, wo man B?cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)
~Author : Heinrich Heine From his play Almansor 1821 Famous Quotes

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

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Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
~Author : Joseph Addison 16721719 Nice Quotes

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
~Author : Charles William Stubbs Great Sayings

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen these qualities in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
~Author : Martha Beck Meaningful Sayings

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
~Author : Real Live Preacher Wise Quotes

To him who is in fear everything rustles.
~Author : Sophocles Motivational Sayings

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.
~Author : John F Kennedy Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered Famous Quotes

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me.
~Author : Gloria Vanderbilt Inspirational Sayings

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
~Author : Phyllis George Nice Quotes

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

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When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.
~Author : David Brower Motivational Sayings

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Famous Quotes

Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him.
~Author : EM Forster Inspirational Sayings

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Nice Quotes

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.
~Author : Henry Louis Mencken Great Sayings

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Meaningful Sayings

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
~Author : H G Wells Wise Quotes

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
~Author : Corra Harris Famous Quotes

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Inspirational Sayings

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt 1916 quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CDROM Nice Quotes

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.
~Author : Madonna Great Sayings

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
~Author : Clive Staples Lewis Meaningful Sayings

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
~Author : Stephen King Wise Quotes

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
~Author : Stephen Spender Wise Quotes

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.
~Author : Robert Frost Motivational Sayings

National Health Insurance:
The compassion of the IRS
The efficiency of the Postal Service
All at Pentagon prices!!!!
~Author : Seen on a bumper sticker Famous Quotes

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
~Author : E Joseph Crossman Inspirational Sayings

Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
~Author : Alphonse Karr Nice Quotes

... it's simply wrong to always order kids to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.
~Author : Erma Bombeck Great Sayings

The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.
~Author : Leon Samson Meaningful Sayings

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
~Author : Seneca Wise Quotes

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
~Author : Emma Goldman Motivational Sayings

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
~Author : Brendan Behan Famous Quotes

One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavet)
~Author : Seneca Inspirational Sayings

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Nice Quotes

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
~Author : H L Mencken Famous Quotes

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
~Author : Mark van Doren Inspirational Sayings

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
~Author : George Orwell Nice Quotes

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
~Author : Fran Lebowitz Great Sayings

I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise Quotes

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
~Author : Bob Wells Motivational Sayings

The road to success is always under construction.
~Author : Jim Miller Famous Quotes

Rumor is not always wrong. - from Life of Agricola
~Author : Publius Cornelius Tacitus Inspirational Sayings

Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.
~Author : Ripley D Saunders Nice Quotes

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.
~Author : Caldwell O'Keefe Meaningful Sayings

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
~Author : Robert Louis Stevenson Nice Quotes

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
~Author : G K Chesterton Great Sayings

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
~Author : Andy Warhol Meaningful Sayings

To forgive is human, to forget divine. . ..
~Author : James Grand Wise Quotes

Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
~Author : John Milton Motivational Sayings

#3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
~Author : California Civil Code Maxims of Jurisprudence Famous Quotes

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~Author : C S Lewis Inspirational Sayings

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

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All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"
~Author : Dave Barry Sweating Out Taxes Inspirational Sayings

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
~Author : Kurdish Proverb Nice Quotes

Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
~Author : Norman Cousins Meaningful Sayings

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Wise Quotes

Let the punishment match the offense.
~Author : Cicero Motivational Sayings

Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.
~Author : Ralph Kiner Famous Quotes

Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit everyone once a year.

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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
~Author : C S Lewis Famous Quotes

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.
~Author : Kabbalah Inspirational Sayings

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)
~Author : Ronald Reagan Nice Quotes

Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit everyone once a year.
~Author : Victor Borges Great Sayings

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
~Author : Victor Hugo Meaningful Sayings

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
~Author : Sir Arthur Eddington Space Time and Gravitation 1920 Wise Quotes

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
~Author : Carrie P Snow Motivational Sayings