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Life Quotes
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 |
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Ellis Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. Anton Chekhov Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre Everything in life is luck. Donald Trump Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. Garrison Keillor  He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth I love life because what more is there. Anthony Hopkins I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. SchulzIn three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset Life is but thought. Sara Teasdale Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert Life is never easy for those who dream. Robert James Waller Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz Life is wasted on the living. Douglas Adams Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney Life loves the liver of it. Maya Angelou Life must be lived as play. Plato Life well spent is long. Leonardo da Vinci Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. Karen Horney Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. David Lodge
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. Mel Brooks |
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Sports quotes
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. Wayne Gretzky A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. Jesse Owens Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. Ambrose Bierce Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. William A. Ward All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. Gordie Howe All sports for all people. Pierre de Coubertin Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. Phil Jackson Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. Doug Collins Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. Phil Jackson As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. Michael Jordan As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Ben Hogan Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. John Leonard Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. James Patrick Murray Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. Peter Ueberroth Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. Bill Veeck Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. Joe Garagiola Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. Ted Williams Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? Jim Bouton Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. Red Auerbache great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. Herbert Hoover Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. Tom Landry Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye. Roger Kahn Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. Jack Benny God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. Eric Liddell Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. Dan Gable |
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Freindship Quotes
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Alice Duer Miller
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Duer Miller
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
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Funny Quotes
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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma Bombeck
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx
A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Steven Wright
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Mark Twain
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
Tracey Ullman
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
Marilyn vos Savant
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
Fred Allen
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
P. J. O'Rourke
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
Jay Leno
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
George Burns
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Josh Billings
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O'Rourke
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
For your information, I would like to ask a question.
Samuel Goldwyn
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
Naguib Mahfouz
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
Marilyn vos Savant
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
He would make a lovely corpse.
Charles Dickens
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W. C. Fields
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen King
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Best love quotes
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A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. Frank Howard Clark A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. Boethius A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Henri B. Stendhal A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld  All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach Do all things with love. Og Mandino First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard ShawFor all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. Boethius For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid Friendship is Love without his wings! Lord Byron Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. Charles Caleb Colton Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. Barbara Pym I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. Javan I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. George Eliot I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. J. D. Salinger If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? Boethius If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIt is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. Marcel Proust Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan Love conquers all. Virgil Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James A. Baldwin Love does not dominate; it cultivates. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. Leo Buscaglia Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle |
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