Meaningful Sayings - Famous Meaningful quotes: September 2008

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
~Author : Sydney Smith Great Sayings

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
~Author : Mark Twain Wearing White Clothes speech 1907 Meaningful Sayings

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
~Author : John Ruskin Wise Quotes

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
~Author : Ecclesiasticus Aprocrypha Ec 4112 Motivational Sayings

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
~Author : Henri de Lubac Inspirational Sayings

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
~Author : J R R Tolkien Nice Quotes

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
~Author : George Lucas Senator Amidala in Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith 2005 Great Sayings

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
~Author : William Henry Hudson Afoot in England 1909 Inspirational Sayings

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Nice Quotes

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
~Author : Amos Bronson Alcott Table Talk Great Sayings

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
~Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Meaningful Sayings

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
~Author : Plato The Republic Wise Quotes

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.
~Author : Isha McKenzieMavinga Motivational Sayings

A penny saved is a penny earned.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Famous Quotes

Worries go down better with soup than without.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
~Author : Mortimer Adler Famous Quotes

Worries go down better with soup than without.
~Author : Jewish Proverb Inspirational Sayings

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
~Author : Eugene McCarthy Nice Quotes

Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
~Author : Fred Brooks Great Sayings

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
~Author : Albert Camus Meaningful Sayings

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
~Author : Albert Einstein Wise Quotes

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
~Author : Judy Garland Motivational Sayings

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.
~Author : Eugene Lam Nice Quotes
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Great Sayings

A little more than kin, and less than kind.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
~Author : Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Wise Quotes

Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~Author : Clive Jones Motivational Sayings

Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...
~Author : Marquis de Sade Justine Famous Quotes

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
~Author : Anonymous Inspirational Sayings

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
~Author : Saint Jerome Nice Quotes

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
~Author : Aaron Levenstein Inspirational Sayings

It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.
~Author : Lillian Bell Nice Quotes

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
~Author : Woody Allen Great Sayings

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
~Author : Saint Augustine Meaningful Sayings

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
~Author : Dr Martin Luther King Jr Wise Quotes

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~Author : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Motivational Sayings

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
~Author : George Ade Famous Quotes

Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.
~Author : Mark Twain New York Journal June 2 1897 Famous Quotes

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
~Author : Eric Hoffer The Passionate State of Mind 1954 Inspirational Sayings

Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
~Author : P Barnum Nice Quotes

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
~Author : O A Battista Great Sayings

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
~Author : Voltaire Meaningful Sayings

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Wise Quotes

With great power comes great responsibility.
~Author : Stan Lee SpiderMan comic Motivational Sayings

The true paradises are paradises we have lost.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
~Author : Fred Allen Nice Quotes

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
~Author : William Congreve The Mourning Bride 1697 act III scene 8 Great Sayings

The true paradises are paradises we have lost.
~Author : Marcel Proust Meaningful Sayings

'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'
~Author : Charles Dickens Wise Quotes

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
~Author : Buddha Motivational Sayings

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.
~Author : Akhenaton Famous Quotes

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
~Author : Joseph Addison Inspirational Sayings

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.
~Author : Prophet Muhammad Muslim Nice Quotes

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world-no ideals.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world-no ideals.
~Author : Golda Meir Sayings

Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.
~Author : Paul Feyerabend Quotes

Underpromise; overdeliver.
~Author : Tom Peters in The Chicago Tribune Sayings

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
~Author : Ayn Rand The Romantic Manifesto p 74 pb 93 Quotes

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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Sayings

Time the devourer of all things.
~Author : Ovid Quotes

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
~Author : Henry Adams Sayings

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
~Author : Hippocrates Quotes

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
~Author : Henry Bromel Sayings

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
~Author : Irma Kurtz Quotes

I have not slept one wink.
~Author : William Shakespeare Sayings

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
~Author : Martin Gardner The Mathematical Magic Show Quotes

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
~Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Sayings

Science is the record of dead religions.

The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.
~Author : Chilo Sayings

Science is the record of dead religions.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Quotes

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
~Author : Bible New Testament James Chapter 1 Verse 12 Sayings

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
~Author : Gerald R Ford Quotes

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
~Author : John Wooden Sayings

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
~Author : Anton Chekhov Quotes

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
~Author : John Churton Collins Sayings

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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
~Author : Van Wyck Brooks Quotes

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.
~Author : Kenneth Cole fashion show speech Sayings

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
~Author : Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Quotes

Batman I'm not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me. Nic What are you Batman I'm Batman
~Author : Batman Sayings

What do you despise By this are you truly known.

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.
~Author : Ross Perot The Dallas Morning News March 11 1984 Quotes

What do you despise By this are you truly known.
~Author : Frank Herbert Sayings

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The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
~Author : Arnold Glasgow Quotes

Inflation continues till common man is completely sucked out of money, then recession sets in and continues till he becomes suckable again.
~Author : B J Gupta Sayings

To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
~Author : Leopold Stein Quotes

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
~Author : Dan Rather Sayings

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.
~Author : James Grover Thurber Quotes

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
~Author : Irish Proverb Sayings

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Sayings

All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute.
~Author : John Dryden Quotes

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
~Author : Dagobert D Runes Sayings

To die will be an awfully big adventure.
~Author : James Barrie Quotes

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Sayings

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
~Author : Charles M Schulz Charlie Brown in Peanuts Quotes

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As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.
~Author : Shakti Gawain Sayings

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Quotes

When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the mind and frees your spirit.
~Author : Unknown Sayings

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
~Author : Isadora Duncan The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan Quotes

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
~Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sayings

Death is not extinguishing the light
It is simply putting out the lamp
Because the dawn has come
~Author : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
~Author : Vincent Van Gogh Sayings

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
~Author : Jim Bishop Quotes

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