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Josephine Herbst
No one ever understood disaster until it came.
Alan Saporta
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
George Santayana
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Susan B. Anthony
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Agnes de Mille
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or howWe guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Herb Caen
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Ronald Reagan
We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Funmi Wale-Adegbite
Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.
Saint Augustine
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
Oscar Wilde
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Frederick Nietzsche
Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general. ¶ 5:09 PM 0 comments
Quotes:
Josephine Herbst
No one ever understood disaster until it came.
Alan Saporta
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
George Santayana
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Susan B. Anthony
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Agnes de Mille
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or howWe guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Herb Caen
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Ronald Reagan
We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Funmi Wale-Adegbite
Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.
Saint Augustine
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
Oscar Wilde
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Frederick Nietzsche
Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general. ¶ 5:09 PM 0 comments
Latest greatest Famous Quotations
Sir Walter Scott
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
Dag Hammarskjold
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Jeff Pesis
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
I Ching
Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.
Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)
Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must. ¶ 1:54 PM 0 comments
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Sir Walter Scott
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
Dag Hammarskjold
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Jeff Pesis
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
I Ching
Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.
Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)
Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must. ¶ 1:54 PM 0 comments
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Thomas a Kempis
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Scottish Proverb
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
Brenda Ueland
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Thomas Carlyle
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
Buddha
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.
La Rochefoucauld
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us. ¶ 10:53 AM 0 comments
Straight to the Quotes ...
Thomas a Kempis
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Scottish Proverb
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
Brenda Ueland
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Thomas Carlyle
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
Buddha
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.
La Rochefoucauld
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us. ¶ 10:53 AM 0 comments
Daily Famous Quotes
Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09-09-05
Even the best of friends need time apart.
William Arthur Ward
If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it.
Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909�14, p.1)
...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Irish Proverb
A light heart lives long.
George Moore
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
Amy Grant
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Sir Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Edward Teller
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution. ¶ 3:28 AM 0 comments
Here are the Famous Quotes ...
Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09-09-05
Even the best of friends need time apart.
William Arthur Ward
If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it.
Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909�14, p.1)
...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Irish Proverb
A light heart lives long.
George Moore
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
Amy Grant
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Sir Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Edward Teller
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution. ¶ 3:28 AM 0 comments
