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Erma Bombeck Famous Quotes August 21, 2009

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.
~Author : Erma Bombeck Famous Quotes

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
~Author : Herbert Rappaport Inspirational Sayings

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
~Author : Julia T Alvarez Nice Quotes

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
~Author : Danny Kaye Great Sayings

Life’s simplest things are love, and kindly friends, Nature’s sweet charm of earth and sea and sky gladness of soul that with right living blends — home’s dear content, so cheap that all may buy.
~Author : Ripley D Saunders Meaningful Sayings

Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.
~Author : Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot 1955 Wise Quotes

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
~Author : Aldous Huxley unknown Motivational Sayings

We make war that we may live in peace.
~Author : Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics Famous Quotes

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Inspirational Sayings

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more. May 18, 2009

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Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
~Author : Will Rogers Famous Quotes

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
~Author : Terry Thomas Inspirational Sayings

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
~Author : R J Baughan Nice Quotes

I’m not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock.
~Author : Sam James Ervin Jr Great Sayings

The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed.’
~Author : Dorothy Parker Meaningful Sayings

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
~Author : Josh Billings Wise Quotes

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
~Author : John Lennon Motivational Sayings

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Famous Quotes

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
~Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero Inspirational Sayings

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
~Author : Sam Levenson Nice Quotes

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
~Author : Lewis Carroll Great Sayings

It’s not the situation… It’s your reaction to the situation.
~Author : Robert Conklin Meaningful Sayings

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
~Author : Gaius Julius Caesar Wise Quotes

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
~Author : Adlai E Stevenson Jr Motivational Sayings

Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
~Author : Pioneer Motto Famous Quotes

Would you please shut up and sit down!
~Author : George Bush The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1993 Inspirational Sayings

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
~Author : Demosthenes Nice Quotes

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
~Author : Cary Grant Great Sayings

Friendship is a horizon– which expands whenever we approach it.
~Author : E R Hazlip Meaningful Sayings

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
~Author : Henri Bergson Wise Quotes

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
~Author : Albert Einstein Motivational Sayings

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.
~Author : Bruce Lee Famous Quotes

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Inspirational Sayings

You see things and you say ‘Why’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not’
~Author : Luigi Pirandello Nice Quotes

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
~Author : Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance Act 3 Great Sayings

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.
~Author : Salvidor Dali Meaningful Sayings

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Wise Quotes

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
~Author : Joseph Wood Krutch Motivational Sayings

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. May 16, 2009

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Difficulties are things that show what men are.
~Author : Epictetus Famous Quotes

…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
~Author : Conan Doyle Inspirational Sayings

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
~Author : Sir Walter Besant Nice Quotes

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple
~Author : Eugene Kennedy Great Sayings

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
~Author : Mark Twain Meaningful Sayings

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Wise Quotes

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him ‘Whose’
~Author : Don Marquis Motivational Sayings

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas … with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
~Author : HS Thompson Inspirational Sayings

I’d rather work with someone who’s good at their job but doesn’t like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
~Author : Sam Donaldson Nice Quotes

In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail.
~Author : Vincent T Lombardi Great Sayings

A contented mind is a continual feast.
~Author : American Proverb Meaningful Sayings

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
~Author : Jean Rostand Wise Quotes

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.
~Author : Saint Francis de Sales Motivational Sayings

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
~Author : Jimi Hendrix Famous Quotes

Not every age is fit for childish sports.
~Author : Titus Maccius Plautus Inspirational Sayings

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
~Author : Sinclair Lewis Nice Quotes

Fill all thy bones with aches.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Tempest Act 1 scene 2 Great Sayings

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Meaningful Sayings

Doubting God’s existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.
~Author : Real Live Preacher Wise Quotes

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
~Author : Rebecca West Motivational Sayings

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
~Author : Lewis B Frumkes Book Title 1983 Famous Quotes

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
~Author : William Shakespeare King John Act 3 scene 4 Inspirational Sayings

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
~Author : Alice James Nice Quotes

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
~Author : Henri Frdric Amiel Great Sayings

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.
~Author : Andrew Young Meaningful Sayings

As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Wise Quotes

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings