To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
~quote about Imagination by George Kneller

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
~quotes on Poverty by William James

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When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
~sayings on American football by George Raveling

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
~quotations on Speaking by Pubilius Syrus

I’ve been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she’d found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.
~teen friendship quotes by Stephen Vincent Benét

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
~saying about teen friendship by Abraham Lincoln

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
~quote about Writing by Francis Bacon

They are not all saints who use holy water.
~quotes on Hypocrisy by English Proverb

To lose one’s self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
~sayings on Daydreaming by Antoine Rivarol

The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree
~saying about better democracy by Thomas Campbell

Pity the man who is content with what he is doing and thinking – where nothing inside him is urging him to something bigger and better – that bigger and grander man he was meant to be.
~quote about Wealth by

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I am at two with nature.
~quotes on Funny Quotes by Woody Allen

History never looks like history when you are living through it.
~sayings on History by John W. Gardner

A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.
~quotations on Leadership by Mark Brouwer

Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
~better democracy famous sayings by Author Unknown

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
~saying about better democracy by Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
~quote about Conformity by Clarence Darrow

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt…
~quotes on Attitude by Dorothy Day

Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money
~sayings on Christmas by Author Unknown

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
~quotations on Ignorance by Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers we

When one’s ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one’s balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Famous Quotes

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
~Author : Agatha Christie Inspirational Sayings

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Nice Quotes

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
~Author : William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Great Sayings

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
~Author : Cullen Hightower Wise Quotes

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Motivational Sayings

As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
~Author : Buddha Famous Quotes

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It’s just not done.
~Author : Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Inspirational Sayings

The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
~Author : Frederic JoliotCurie quoted by MA Markov A Random Walk in Science compiled by R L Weber edited by E Mendoza Nice Quotes

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
~Author : Ashley Montagu Great Sayings

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Meaningful Sayings

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill End of war speeches Debt to RAF Wise Quotes

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you get all wet.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.
~Author : Robert Green Ingersoll Famous Quotes

He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
~Author : Albert Einstein Inspirational Sayings

[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
~Author : Lord Byron Nice Quotes

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)
~Author : Gerald R Ford Great Sayings

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
~Author : Katherine Patterson Jacob Have I Loved Meaningful Sayings

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
~Author : Author Unknown Wise Quotes

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Motivational Sayings

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
~Author : Sri da Avabhas Famous Quotes

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
~Author : M Scott Peck Nice Quotes

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.
~Author : Jerry Coleman Great Sayings

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
~Author : Joseph Addison Meaningful Sayings

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.
~Author : Arab Proverb Wise Quotes

To philosophize is to doubt.
~Author : Michel de Montaigne Motivational Sayings

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Famous Quotes

Flowers feed the soul.
~Author : Mohammad Inspirational Sayings

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
~Author : George Orwell Nice Quotes

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
~Author : Eleanor Marx Great Sayings

I am who I am, You are who you are, So, be who you are, not what you are.
~Author : Teo Chee Huen Meaningful Sayings

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Wise Quotes

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
~Author : English Proverb Motivational Sayings

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
~Author : Maurice Baring Famous Quotes

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.
~Author : John Mitchell Mason Inspirational Sayings

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
~Author : Marcus Terentius Varro Great Sayings

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
~Author : Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun Meaningful Sayings

Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
~Author : Steven Wright Wise Quotes

It takes all sorts to make a world.
~Author : Miguel Cerbantes Motivational Sayings

When I get smitten, I stay smut.
~Author : Charlie McCarthy Famous Quotes

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
~Author : William McFee Inspirational Sayings

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.
~Author : Samuel Smiles Nice Quotes

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
~Author : Marcus Valerius Martialis Great Sayings

Spring has sprung. We’re free at last, people. Free at last. Thank you mother nature, we’re free. Time to toss open that metaphysical window and check out that psychic landscape. See lots of possibilities budding out there. Time to hoe those rows, feed that seed. Pretty soon you get a garden.
~Author : Robin Green Meaningful Sayings

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government – the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
~Author : William Orville Douglas Wise Quotes

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
~Author : Jerry Coleman Motivational Sayings

What you cannot enforce, do not command.
~Author : Sophocles Famous Quotes

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.
~Author : Robert Benchley Inspirational Sayings

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
~Author : Dwight D Eisenhower From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors April 16 1963 Nice Quotes

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.
~Author : Henry Van Dyke Great Sayings

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
~Author : Harriet Braiker Meaningful Sayings

Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.
~Author : Black Elk Native American Wise Quotes

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
~Author : William Arthur Ward Motivational Sayings

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it for when we fail our pride supports us when we succeed, it betrays us.
~Author : Charles Caleb Colton Famous Quotes

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
~Author : Shaquille ONeal Inspirational Sayings

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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
~Author : Whitney Young Jr Nice Quotes

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.
~Author : James Magary Great Sayings

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
~Author : Robert Frost Meaningful Sayings

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
~Author : Rosabeth Moss Kanter Wise Quotes

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly — hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
~Author : Joan Rivers Motivational Sayings

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
~Author : Mark Twain Famous Quotes

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
~Author : James Barrie Inspirational Sayings

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
~Author : Charles Darwin Voyage of the Beagle Nice Quotes

I’m proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is — I could be just as proud for half the money.
~Author : Arthur Godfrey Great Sayings

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
~Author : Muhammad Ali Meaningful Sayings

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences
~Author : Signs Wise Quotes

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all
~Author : William Hart Coleridge Motivational Sayings

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
~Author : Antoinette Brown Blackwell Famous Quotes

A leader is a dealer in hope.
~Author : Napolean Bonaparte Inspirational Sayings

… Religion … [is] the basis and foundation of government … before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
~Author : James Madison Nice Quotes

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Great Sayings

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.
~Author : US vs Cruikshan Meaningful Sayings

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
~Author : Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wise Quotes

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
~Author : Josh Billings Motivational Sayings

There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.
~Author : Steve Chandler Famous Quotes

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Inspirational Sayings

Tony Montana You think you can take me You need a f***ing army if you gonna take me
~Author : Scarface Nice Quotes

My masculinity isn’t hinged on whether or not I knit.
~Author : Robin Green Great Sayings

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
~Author : Muhammad Ali Meaningful Sayings

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
~Author : Socrates Wise Quotes

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
~Author : Jose Raul Bernardo The Secret of the Bulls Simon Schuster 1996 Motivational Sayings

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
~Author : Colette Chance Acquaintances 1952 Sayings

We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring.
~Author : Rev Jesse Jackson Quotes

For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
~Author : Maya Angelou Sayings

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
~Author : George W Bush Quotes

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
~Author : Plato The Republic Sayings

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
~Author : Confucius Quotes

Never let your inferiors do you a favor – it will be extremely costly.
~Author : H L Mencken Quotes

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?
~Author : Jesus Christ Matthew 1626 Sayings

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake–which I also keep handy.
~Author : W C Fields Quotes

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
~Author : Shirley MacLaine Sayings

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
~Author : Jean Rostand Quotes

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
~Author : Stephen A Brennan Sayings

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
~quotes about Leadership by Dennis A. Peer

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
~inspirational saying quotes by William Wordsworth

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
~saying on College by J. Robert Oppenheimer

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
~inspirational saying quotes by Wilson Mizner

Truth is not determined by majority vote
~inspiration by Doug Gwyn

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year
~sayings about inspiration by P.J. O’Rourke

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
~quotes about Fear by Arnold Glasow

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau~meaningful Friendship Quotes

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln~Nice Friendship Sayings

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again
~Author : William Shakespeare~meaningful Goodbye Quotes

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
~Author : Thomas Helm~Nice Books Reading Sayings

Most people wish to serve God – but only in an advisory capacity.
~Author : Author Unknown~meaningful God Quotes

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.  ~E. Joseph Cossman


Nerves and butterflies are fine – they’re a physical sign that you’re mentally ready and eager.  You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that’s the trick.  ~Steve Bull<!–, quoted in The Times, 9 Oct 1999; CDC–>

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance.  Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number.  ~Edith Armstrong

Nerves provide me with energy.  They work for me.  It’s when I don’t have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.  ~Mike Nichols

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.  ~Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”