funny short sayings

We have to play what is actually in demand

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There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
~Author : Jane Austen Meaningful Sayings

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.
~Author : Herman Hesse Steppenwolf Wise Quotes

Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
~Author : Arcesilaus Motivational Sayings

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
~Author : Lady Bird Johnson Famous Quotes

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
~Author : Rupert Brooke Inspirational Sayings

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
~Author : Gabrid Garcia Marquez Nice Quotes

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
~Author : Alfred North Whitehead Great Sayings

Love doesn't make the world go round.

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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
~Author : Anne Morrow Lindbergh Inspirational Sayings

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~Author : Franklin P Jones Nice Quotes

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
~Author : Lily Langtry Great Sayings

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
~Author : David Assael Meaningful Sayings

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.
~Author : Jose Raul Bernardo The Wise Women of Havana HarperCollins 2002 Wise Quotes

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
~Author : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Motivational Sayings

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
~Author : Baltasar Gracian Famous Quotes

Greatness is great power, producing great effects.

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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
~Author : Walter Lippmann Famous Quotes

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
~Author : William Shakespeare Inspirational Sayings

I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.
~Author : Graffito Nice Quotes

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
~Author : William Hazlitt on the Pleasure of Hating Great Sayings

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
~Author : Lucille Ball Meaningful Sayings

The journey is the reward.
~Author : Taoist Proverb Wise Quotes

That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Motivational Sayings

Tom Wilson Meaningful Sayings

2008-10-19T02:52:00.001-07:00

These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.
~Author : Tom Wilson Meaningful Sayings

Men are what their mothers made them.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise Quotes

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.
~Author : Robert Benchley Motivational Sayings

History never looks like history when you are living through it.
~Author : John W Gardner Famous Quotes

It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
~Author : Thomas Arnold Inspirational Sayings

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Nice Quotes

Strength is the outcome of need.
~Author : H G Wells The Time Machine Great Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nice Quotes

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To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
~Author : Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nice Quotes

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Great Sayings

All men think all men are mortal but themselves.
~Author : Edward Young Meaningful Sayings

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
~Author : Seneca Wise Quotes

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Motivational Sayings

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
~Author : John Gillespie Magee Famous Quotes

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower Inspirational Sayings

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
~Author : Christiane MD Northrup Nice Quotes

Horatio Nelson Famous Quotes

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Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
~Author : Horatio Nelson Famous Quotes

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
~Author : Sir J R Seeley Inspirational Sayings

Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.
~Author : German proverb Nice Quotes

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
~Author : Ivy Baker Priest Great Sayings

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it.
~Author : Richard Lamm Meaningful Sayings

I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.
~Author : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Wise Quotes

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
~Author : Morrie Schwartz Tuesdays With Morrie Motivational Sayings

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
~Author : Thomas Paine Famous Quotes

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.

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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
~Author : Hazlitt Meaningful Sayings

Genius is perseverence in disguise.
~Author : Mike Newlin Wise Quotes

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
~Author : Joseph Addison Motivational Sayings

"9W"
Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner?
~Author : Steve Allen from the Question Man segment on the Steve Allen Show Famous Quotes

That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.
~Author : Terence Inspirational Sayings

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
~Author : Samuel Butler Nice Quotes

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
~Author : Emerson Great Sayings

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves

2008-10-08T08:12:00.001-07:00

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
~Author : Mitch Albom The Five People You Meet in Heaven Nice Quotes

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
~Author : Spiro Agnew Great Sayings

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
~Author : Edgar Albert Guest Meaningful Sayings

Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to.
~Author : Stuti Garg Wise Quotes

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
~Author : Alfred North Whitehead Motivational Sayings

Live a life as a monument to your soul.
~Author : Ayn Rand Famous Quotes

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
~Author : Kyle Schmidt Inspirational Sayings

Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think.

2008-10-08T08:11:00.000-07:00

The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'.
~Author : Unknown Famous Quotes

Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think.
~Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Inspirational Sayings

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
~Author : Michael Johnson Nice Quotes

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
~Author : Conrad Hilton Great Sayings

For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.
~Author : Lord Alfred Tennyson Ulysses Meaningful Sayings

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
~Author : Leonardo da Vinci Wise Quotes

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
~Author : John Andrew Holmes Motivational Sayings

Attitude is more important than reality.
~Author : Elaine Agather Famous Quotes

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

2008-10-02T06:35:00.005-07:00

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
~Author : Stendhal Famous Quotes

Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
~Author : Whittaker Chambers from Witness 1952 Inspirational Sayings

Thank God kids never mean well
~Author : Lily Tomlin Nice Quotes

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
~Author : Vincent McNabb Great Sayings

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.
~Author : Sophie Kerr Meaningful Sayings

Marty McFly Jesus, George, it's a wonder I was ever born.
~Author : Back to the Future Wise Quotes

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
~Author : Aeschylus Motivational Sayings

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Famous Quotes

He that promises most will perform least.

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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
~Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Famous Quotes

You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Inspirational Sayings

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
~Author : Jean Baudrillard Nice Quotes

He that promises most will perform least.
~Author : Gaelic Proverb Great Sayings

I love life because what more is there.
~Author : Anthony Hopkins Meaningful Sayings

I am not young enough to know everything.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Wise Quotes

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
~Author : Learned Hand Famous Quotes

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
~Author : Hesketh Pearson Inspirational Sayings

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
~Author : Ignazio Silone Nice Quotes

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
~Author : J R R Tolkien Great Sayings

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
~Author : Barry LePatner Meaningful Sayings

With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
~Author : Charles Dickens Wise Quotes

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.
~Author : George Jean Nathan Motivational Sayings

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

2008-09-30T08:48:00.005-07:00

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
~Author : Bergen Evans Motivational Sayings

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
~Author : Rita Mae Brown Starting From Scratch 1988 Famous Quotes

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~Author : Edgar Watson Howe Inspirational Sayings

It is the mind that makes the man.
~Author : Ovid Nice Quotes

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
~Author : Edward BulwerLytton Great Sayings

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
~Author : Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Meaningful Sayings

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.
~Author : James Grover Thurber Wise Quotes

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
~Author : Henry Ford Famous Quotes

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
~Author : Seneca Inspirational Sayings

All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them.
~Author : Walt Disney Nice Quotes

The police.....always wanting to play games.

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People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
~Author : Howard W Newton Famous Quotes

The police.....always wanting to play games.
~Author : Maude Ruth Gordon from the movie Harold Maude Inspirational Sayings

'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms.
~Author : Niall MacDermot Nice Quotes

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
~Author : HL Mencken Great Sayings

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
~Author : F Scott Meaningful Sayings

Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons.
~Author : H L Mencken Wise Quotes

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
~Author : Henry Adams Motivational Sayings

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
~Author : Charles Dickens Famous Quotes

In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can.
~Author : Michael Korda Inspirational Sayings

... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.
~Author : Siri Hustvedt What I Loved pg 336 Nice Quotes

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
~Author : F Scott Great Sayings

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.
~Author : George W Bush Speech 2005 Great Sayings

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
~Author : Vaclav Havel Meaningful Sayings

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~Author : St Augistine Wise Quotes

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
~Author : Ansel Adams Motivational Sayings

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.
~Author : Julius Henry Marx Famous Quotes

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
~Author : Herodotus Inspirational Sayings

Michael Bolton Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton. Samir You know there's nothing wrong with that name. Michael Bolton There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
~Author : Office Space Nice Quotes

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

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All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
~Author : A C Benson Famous Quotes

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Inspirational Sayings

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
~Author : Unknown Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln Nice Quotes

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
~Author : Senator Patrick Leahy May 1990 Wise Quotes

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
~Author : Arthur Goldberg Motivational Sayings

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.
~Author : Joseph B Wirthlin Famous Quotes

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

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Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
~Author : Matrix The Famous Quotes

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Inspirational Sayings

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.
~Author : Hazrat Ali IbneAbi Talib NahjulBalagha Sermons and sayings Compilation Nice Quotes

The Statue of Liberty is not that monument's name. It is Liberty Enlightening the World.
~Author : Deane Jordan Great Sayings

If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts 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

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
~Author : Julius Henry Marx Motivational Sayings