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famous friendship quotes

pearlvidel — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:29:01 +0000

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

motivational one liners & motivation sayings

pearlvidel — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:36:40 +0000

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

famous quotes on change by Joseph Schenck

pearlvidel — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:55:15 +0000

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

quotes about Friendship by Alan Loy Mcginnis

pearlvidel — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:53:50 +0000

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

famous quotes on change by Anonymous Teacher

pearlvidel — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:52:33 +0000

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

sayings about life by Confucius

pearlvidel — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:38:42 +0000

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

inspirational away messages by Arthur Schopenhauer

pearlvidel — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:37:39 +0000

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
~inspirational away messages by Arthur Schopenhauer

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
~away messages by Saul Alinsky

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it
~sayings about away messages by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

The history of free men is never written by chance, but by choice - their choice.
~quotes about Attitude by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
~inspirational away messages by Harlan Miller

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete
~saying on Books by Robert M. Hamilton

Wouldn’t it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?
~inspirational away messages by Elayne Boosler

saying on Baby by Irena Chalmers

pearlvidel — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:47:07 +0000

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

quotes about Opportunities by John F. Kennedy

pearlvidel — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:46:16 +0000

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~quotes about Opportunities by John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
~easter motivational quote by John Muir, letter to J.B. McChesney, 19 September 1871

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
~saying on Life by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul
~easter motivational quote by Edith Wharton

My strength is made perfect in weakness
~easter by II Corinthians

We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
~sayings about easter by Mark Twain

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
~quotes about Love by Eva Gabor

quotes about Marriage by Friedrich Nietzsche

pearlvidel — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:44:44 +0000

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