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April 13, 2008

sayings about life by Confucius

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~sayings about away messages by Confucius

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadowIf you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulderIf you want a hug, I’ll be your pillowIf you need to be happy, I’ll be your smileBut anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me
~quotes about For a Friend by Author Unknown

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
~inspirational away messages by Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the peopleOf course, that is not trueDecisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing
~saying on Election Day by Walter H. Judd

The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
~inspirational away messages by Pablo Casals

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
~away messages by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
~sayings about away messages by John Lennon

 

March 27, 2008

saying on Baby by Irena Chalmers

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There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can’t get it
 ~saying on Baby by Irena Chalmers

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
 ~easter motivational quote by Joy Hargrove

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
 ~easter by Bill Cosby, Love and Marriage

That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore.
 ~sayings about easter by Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
 ~quotes about Music by Alphonse de Lamartine

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
 ~easter motivational quote by Lord Dewar

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
 ~saying on Grandparents by Fanny Fern

 

March 27, 2008

quotes about Marriage by Friedrich Nietzsche

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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
 ~quotes about Marriage by Friedrich Nietzsche

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren’t so crazy about the first time around.
 ~athletic motivational quote by Author Unknown

You have to have the kind of body that doesn’t need a girdle in order to get to pose in one.
 ~saying on Clothing by Carolyn Kenmore

A big tree attracts the gale.
 ~athletic motivational quote by Chinese

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
 ~athletic by Robert S. Wieder

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.
 ~sayings about athletic by Leo Buscaglia

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
 ~quotes about Teenagers by Raymond Duncan

 

March 20, 2008

saying on Life by Elwyn Brooks White

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
 ~saying on Life by Elwyn Brooks White

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
 ~catholic inspirational messages by George Bernard Shaw

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
 ~catholic messages by

Cut your losses and let your profits run
 ~sayings about catholic messages by Proverb

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
 ~quotes about Censorship by Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959

There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
 ~catholic inspirational messages by Josh Billings

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending
 ~saying on Goodbye by Lazurus Long

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
 ~catholic inspirational messages by G.K. Chesterton

 

March 19, 2008

saying on Hugs by Jacques Prévert

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Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.
 ~saying on Hugs by Jacques Prévert

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
 ~famous presidential quote by Henry Ford

I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday.
 ~presidential by Mike Morley

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
 ~sayings about presidential by Joshua L. Liebman

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
 ~quotes about Environment by Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
 ~famous presidential quote by Felix Cohen

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And some people still wonder why some are afraid when they are told they are loved
 ~saying on Luck by Unknown

 

March 18, 2008

motivational quote for teen by you

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You can’t keep a man from doing wrong until you keep him from thinking wrong.
 ~motivational quote for teen by

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
 ~teen by Samuel Johnson

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
 ~sayings about teen by Tallulah Bankhead

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
 ~quotes about Freedom by Robert Frost

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
 ~motivational quote for teen by Jorge Luis Borges

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive
 ~saying on I’m Sorry by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

What’s nice about our tour is you can’t remember your bad shots.
 ~motivational quote for teen by Bob Bruce, about the senior tour

 

March 16, 2008

saying on Philosophical by John Burroughs

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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
 ~saying on Philosophical by John Burroughs

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something
 ~key chain with funny saying by Henry David Thoreau

There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
 ~key chain with by Tom Masson

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.
 ~sayings about key chain with by D.H. Lawrence

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
 ~quotes about Quotations by David H. Comins

Losing is the great American sin.
 ~key chain with funny saying by Jerome Holtzman

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation
 ~saying on Patriotic by Woodrow Wilson

every rose has thorns
 ~key chain with funny saying by none

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.
 ~key chain with by Author Unknown, The Scrappers Creed

 

March 15, 2008

Inspirational purpose quotes and motivational purpose sayings

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.
  Quote By  George Bernard Shaw~Inspirational purpose quote

A useless life is an early death.
  purpose motivational sayings by  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
  Quote By  Seneca~Inspirational purpose quote

An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
  purpose motivational sayings by  José Ortega y Gasset

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
  Quote By  George Bernard Shaw~Inspirational purpose quote

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
  purpose motivational sayings by  Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892

 

March 15, 2008

Inspirational money quotes and motivational money sayings

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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
  Quote By  Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912~Inspirational money quote

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too
  money motivational sayings by  Yiddish Proverb

A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.
  Quote By  Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966~Inspirational money quote

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
  money motivational sayings by  Doug Larson

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
  Quote By  Pablo Picasso~Inspirational money quote

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.
  money motivational sayings by  Terri Guillemets

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
  Quote By  Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966~Inspirational money quote

 

March 14, 2008

saying on Teenagers by Logan Pearsall Smith, Age and Death, Afterthoughts, 1931

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Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
 ~saying on Teenagers by Logan Pearsall Smith, Age and Death, Afterthoughts, 1931

It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
 ~motivational quote teamwork by Lewis Grizzard

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie
 ~teamwork by Tenneva Jordan

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
 ~sayings about teamwork by Abraham Lincoln

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain’t so hot.
 ~quotes about Marriage by Minnie Pearl

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
 ~motivational quote teamwork by Leo Aikman

Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
 ~saying on Censorship by Lenny Bruce

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
 ~motivational quote teamwork by Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

 

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