May 2008


A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. - Rudyard Kipling

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. - Mark Twain

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - George Bernard Shaw

you have to be yourself. be very honest about who and what you are. if people still like you thats fine. if they dont thats their problem.
~Author : Sting~Nice Attitude Sayings

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
~Author : Jonathan Swift~meaningful Genius Quotes

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
~Author : Sigmund Freud~Nice Love Quotes Sayings

Success is heavy burden, but not as heavy as failure.
~Author : ~meaningful Success Quotes

A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again
~Author : Author Unknown~Nice Missing You Sayings

Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on too long.
~Author : Ogden Nash~meaningful Civilization Quotes

A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
~Author : Author Unknown~Nice Friendship Sayings

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Author : Mason Cooley~meaningful Travel Quotes

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
~motivational work quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Cities are the abyss of the human species.
~work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
~sayings about work by Lewis Gannit

Man - a being in search of meaning.
~quotes about Humankind by Plato

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~motivational work quotes by Garth Brooks

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
~saying on Prayer by Will Rogers

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
~words of encouragement by Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
~sayings about words of encouragement by Martin H. Fischer

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.
~quotes about Women by Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Poker is… a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature.
~inspirational words of encouragement by David A Daniel

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
~saying on Religion by Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
~inspirational words of encouragement by John C. Collins

If four or five guys tell you that you’re drunk, even though you know you haven’t had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while
~famous quotes on change by Joseph Schenck

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
~change by Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
~sayings about change by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down
~quotes about Party Invitations by Phyllis Diller

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~famous quotes on change by Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~saying on Teachers by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.
~quotes about Friendship by Alan Loy Mcginnis

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
~famous quotes on change by Kenneth Clark

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world
~saying on Dance by Mata Hari

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
~famous quotes on change by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
~change by Ruth Ann Schabacker

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
~sayings about change by Ambrose Bierce

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything
~quotes about Labor Day by John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
~famous quotes on change by Abraham Maslow

If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
~famous quotes on change by Anonymous Teacher

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
~change by Mother Teresa

No man can follow Christ and go astray.
~sayings about change by William H.P. Faunce

I’m not against half naked girls - not as often as I’d like to be.
~quotes about Women by Benny Hill

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
~famous quotes on change by Lauren Raffo

A grownup is a child with layers on.
~saying on Inner Child by Woody Harrelson

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.
~famous quotes on change by Author Unknown