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quotations on Children by Author Unknown June 11, 2009

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A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice – especially when she’s taking a nap.
~quotations on Children by Author Unknown

The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination.
~funny quote about guys by Thomas Hill

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
~saying about guys by Robert Maclver

Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
~quote about Advice by Mary Wortley Montagu

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.
~quotes on Society by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, On the Pitying, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Sibling relationships – and 80 percent of Americans have at least one – outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.
~sayings on Brothers by Erica E. Goode, The Secret World of Siblings, U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
~quotations on Marriage by Langdon Mitchell

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~funny quote about guys by Tom Wilson

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
~saying about guys by Harry Caray

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
~quote about Society by Theodore Roosevelt

Science is the topography of ignorance.
~quotes on Science by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Essays, 1883

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best. May 16, 2009

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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
~Author : Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind Inspirational Sayings

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
~Author : William Faulkner Nice Quotes

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
~Author : Thomas Fuller Great Sayings

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
~Author : Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy Meaningful Sayings

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.
~Author : Erma Bombeck Wise Quotes

Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment — a way of looking at one’s existence, one’s misfortune, or one’s discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself.
~Author : Claude Roy Motivational Sayings

The major sin is the sin of being born.
~Author : Samuel Beckett Famous Quotes

If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth.
~Author : Yiddish Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
~Author : EB White Nice Quotes

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
~Author : E B White Great Sayings

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
~Author : Jane Wagner and Lily Tomlin Meaningful Sayings

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
~Author : Robert Louis Stephenson Wise Quotes

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
~Author : Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh Motivational Sayings

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Sceptical Essays 1928 Dreams and Facts Famous Quotes

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
~Author : SunTzu Inspirational Sayings

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
~Author : Earl Warren Great Sayings

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
~Author : Arthur Wellesley Meaningful Sayings

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
~Author : Honore’ de Balzac Wise Quotes

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
~Author : Albert Schweitzer Motivational Sayings

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
~Author : Confucius Famous Quotes

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
~Author : Fred Allen Inspirational Sayings

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.
~Author : Coolio The Winner Nice Quotes

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
~Author : Socrates Quoted in Plato Phaedrus sct 262 Great Sayings

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Meaningful Sayings

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.
~Author : Edwin Conklin Wise Quotes

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
~Author : John Ruskin Motivational Sayings