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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain
In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
- William Shakespeare
I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Anonymous Quotes and Quotations
Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
- Anonymous | Action Quotes
All glory comes from daring to begin.
- Anonymous | Action Quotes
'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
- Anonymous | Action Quotes
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
- Anonymous | Adversity Quotes
Fire tries gold, misfortune men.
- Anonymous | Adversity Quotes
There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.
- Anonymous | Advice Quotes
Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Anonymous | Anger Quotes
There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four, but he worries about it.
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do . . . For all men have one entrance into life. The Apocrypha Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe Thursday's child has far to go Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living, But the child born on the Sabbath day Is happy and wise and good and gay.
- Anonymous | Birth Quotes
Book lovers never go to bed alone.
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
- Anonymous | Capitalism Quotes
If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by an empty desk?
- Anonymous | Capitalism Quotes
After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.
- Anonymous | Capitalism Quotes
Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.
A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.
What costs nothing is worth nothing.
Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.
If a player continues transgressing the rules, his side shall lose him.
All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.)
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.
- Anonymous | Conscience Quotes
Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)
Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.
Death is terrible to Cicero, desirable to Cato, and indifferent to Socrates.
To lose Is to learn.
- Anonymous | Defeat Quotes
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
- Anonymous | Education Quotes
No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgement.
- Anonymous | Experience Quotes
There is no such thing as a little garlic.
- Anonymous | Food Quotes
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Friendship admits of differences of character, as love does that of sex.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
- Anonymous | Genius Quotes
The parting genius is with sighing sent.
- Anonymous | Genius Quotes
If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name?
- Anonymous | God Quotes
He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.
At certain times of grave national stress, when that rag-bag called the British Constitution is in grave danger of coming unstuck, thank heaven for the big safety-pin at the top that keeps it together.
He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .
- Anonymous | Greatness Quotes
Hell is truth seen too late.
A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.
- Anonymous | Heredity Quotes
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.
- Anonymous | Homo Sapiens Quotes
Honour follows those who flee it.
- Anonymous | Honour Quotes
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous | Hope Quotes
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
He who laughs, lasts.
Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.
- Anonymous | Ideas Quotes
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.
- Anonymous | Ignorance Quotes
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, good Lord, deliver us!
- Anonymous | Imagination Quotes
Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.
- Anonymous | Justice Quotes
When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.
- Anonymous | Laziness Quotes
Liberty is always unfinished business.
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
- Anonymous | Life Quotes
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
- Anonymous | Literature Quotes
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
- Anonymous | Literature Quotes
In the act of loving someone you arm them against you.
- Anonymous | Love Quotes
A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own.
- Anonymous | Marriage Quotes
To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.
If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.
- Anonymous | Memory Quotes
A man is never so weak as when a woman is telling him how strong he is.
- Anonymous | Men and Women Quotes
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
- Anonymous | Money Quotes
When you want really big money, you usually find yourself talking to people who didn't go to Eton.
- Anonymous | Money Quotes
Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.
Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.
- Anonymous | Music Quotes
Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.
- Anonymous | Music Quotes
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
- Anonymous | Originality Quotes
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.
- Anonymous | Parenthood Quotes
A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.
- Anonymous | Parenthood Quotes
One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked, upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."
When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."
- Anonymous | Politics Quotes
Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.
- Anonymous | Power Quotes
'Mr. President, I am praying for you. 'Which way, Senator?'
- Anonymous | Prayer Quotes
What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
- Anonymous | Prayer Quotes
Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.
- Anonymous | Progress Quotes
Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.
- Anonymous | Progress Quotes
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
- Anonymous | Psychiatry Quotes
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
- Anonymous | Psychiatry Quotes
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.
- Anonymous | Psychiatry Quotes
He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.
Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband.
Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.
His shortcoming is his long staying.
If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.
There's a wonderful family called Stein, There's Gert, and there's Epp and there's Ein: Gert's poems are bunk, Epp's statues are junk, And no one can understand Ein.
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.
He'd give the devil ulcers.
The test for a prophet is in the Bible. It is this. "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken."
- Anonymous | Religion Quotes
The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer.
- Anonymous | Religion Quotes
Let's all give God a great big hand. I've seen the last page of the bible and it's going to turn out all right.
- Anonymous | Religion Quotes
The sea hath no king but God alone.
- Anonymous | The Sea Quotes
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old church in the country.
- Anonymous | The Sea Quotes
Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.
- Anonymous | The Seasons Quotes
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Somerset House in London where at one time English vital statistics were kept - birth, marriage and death records - was known as the egg factory "where they hatch 'em, match 'em, and dispatch 'em."
Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.
Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
It takes time to be a success, but time is all it takes.
- Anonymous | Success Quotes
Success is not so much what you are, but rather what you appear to be.
- Anonymous | Success Quotes
Tact is the intelligence of the heart.
A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.
The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.
- Anonymous | Taxation Quotes
If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night.
- Anonymous | Time Quotes
A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady, when asked why she never travelled, said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.
Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.
Some people handle the truth carelessly; Others never touch it at all.
- Anonymous | Truth Quotes
Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children.
- Anonymous | Truth Quotes
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Anonymous | War Quotes
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves.
Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.
- Anonymous | Wisdom Quotes
A word to the wise is infuriating.
- Anonymous | Wisdom Quotes
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
- Anonymous | Wit Quotes
Some women blush when they are kissed; some call for the police; some swear; some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
- Anonymous | Women Quotes
The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.
- Anonymous | Women Quotes
One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Anonymous | Work Quotes
A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.
- Anonymous | Work Quotes
In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.
The beginning is easy; what happens next is much harder.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.
Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.
- Anonymous | Youth Quotes
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
- Anonymous | Youth Quotes
When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier."
- Anonymous | Women Quotes
The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.
- Anonymous | Regrets Quotes
Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
- Anonymous | Regrets Quotes
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
- Anonymous | Faith and Fear Quotes
The rich know not who is his friend.
A friend is never known till a man has need.
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
- Anonymous | Cheerfulness Quotes
When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
- Anonymous | Peace of Mind Quotes
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
- Anonymous | Peace of Mind Quotes
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Happy is he that chastens himself.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
All happiness is in the mind.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Better be happy than wise.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
No pleasure without pain.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
- Anonymous | Happiness Quotes
If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.
- Anonymous | Acceptance Quotes
Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.
- Anonymous | Acceptance Quotes
For so must it be, and help me do my part.
- Anonymous | Acceptance Quotes
Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
- Anonymous | Acceptance Quotes
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
- Anonymous | Acceptance Quotes
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Anonymous | Acceptance Quotes
Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.
- Anonymous | Acceptance Quotes
Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.
- Anonymous | Acceptance Quotes
Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
He has enough who is contented with little.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
More than enough is too much.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
He is not rich that possesses much, but he that is content with what he has.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
He is not rich that possesses much, but he that is content with what he has.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
Life is hard. Next to what?
- Anonymous | Forgiveness Quotes
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.
- Anonymous | Other Side Quotes
Acorns were good till bread was found.
- Anonymous | Other Side Quotes
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
- Anonymous | Other Side Quotes
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
- Anonymous | Other Side Quotes
Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.
A little help is worth a great deal of pity.
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
It was only a sunny smile, And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light, it scattered the night, And made the day worth living.
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
- Anonymous | Friendship Quotes
There is no physician like a true friend.
- Anonymous | Friendship Quotes
A true friend is the best possession.
- Anonymous | Friendship Quotes
Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
- Anonymous | Friendship Quotes
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
- Anonymous |