Some other great quotes or proverbs

1.Hurdles are easy to get over,it's the landing that hurts.
2.That which we persist in doing becomes easier-not that the nature of the task has changed,but the ability to do has increased.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.-Adam Smith
4.You can't harvest what you don't sow.So plant your desires ,gently nurture them,and they will be rewarded with abundance.-Vivian E.Glyck
5.Life is not about finding our limitations'it's about finding our infinity.-Herbie Hancock.
6.No matter what the level of your ability,you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.-James T.McCay
7.Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability you have.-Zig Ziglar
8.Poverty is death in another form.-Latin proverb
9.The shield against the strings of conscience is the universal practice of our contemporaries.Again,it is very easy to be as wise and good as your companions.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
10.Those who spend all their time talking will have no time to think.-Chinese proverb
11.To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men.-Thomas Jefferson
12.Best way to know God is to love many things.-Vincent Van GOgh
13.Liberty is rendered more precious by the recollection of servitude.-Cicero
14.If you don't laugh out loud at least once a day-----pay me to do it.-Robert Daniel Heger
15.Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands-and then eat just one of the pieces.-Judith Viorst

Two good quotes

1.You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.-Logan Pearsall Smith
2.Nonne ever finds life worth living.One always has to make life worth living.-Richard McFeely

A potpourri of quotes and proverbs

1.Nobobdy roots for Goliath.-Wilt Chamberlain
2.Man is the main source of his own misery.-Chinese proverb
3.A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.-Sioux proverb
4.Animals feed,man eats .Only the mam of intellect knows how to eat.-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
5.We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.-Libbie Fudim
6.Our patience will achieve more than our force.-Edmund Burke
7.If sunbeams were weapons of war,we would have had solar energy centuries ago.-Sir George Porter
8.Change is not made without inconvenience,even from worse to better.-Richard Hooker
9.Three brothers,three castles.-Proverb
10.There is nothing stable in the world;uproar's your only music.-John Keats
11.Don't expect a great day;make one.-On a billboard in Manhattan
12.It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.-Mark Twain
13.We generate our own environment.We get exactly what we deserve.How can we resent a life we've created ourselves.-Richard Bach
14.Poverty is not socialism.To be rich is glorious.-Deng Xiaoping
15.Reason has always existed,but not always in a reasonable form.-Karl Marx
16.The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession,what there is of it.-Mark Twain
17.The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.-Virginia Woolf
18.Trains cannot be run for charity.-Mahatma Gandhi
19.COrruption ought not to be an inevitable product of democracy.-Mahatma Gandhi

Howard Stern

It is shocking(gasp)that potty-mouthed talk show host Howard Stern makes 31$ million a year.Capitalism has run amok;what is America
coming to?

More good quotes and proverbs

1.Every day is a good day to be alive,whether the sun's shining or not.-Marty Robbins
2.The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself,but how well he plays the role destiny assigned to him.-Jan Patocka
3.It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.-Franz Kafka
4.Fortune has a fickle heart and a short memory.-Chinese proverb.
5.Words are the only 'holy' for me.The only sanctity really,for me is the sanctity of language.-Maxine Kumin
6.Peace and a well-built house cannot be bought too dearly.-Danish proverb

Good Chinese proverb

1.Don't jump over a pit only to fall into a well.-Chinese proverb

A few interesting quips and proverbs

1.Enjoy yourself.It's later than you think.-Chinese proverb
2.A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.-Malagasy proverb
3.The fate of a people depends much more on their character than on their intelligence.-Gustave Le Bon
4.Optimism is the opium of the people.-Milan Kundera
5.Reshape one's foot to try to fit into a new shoe.-Chinese proverb
6.People who have no faults are terrible;there is no way to take advantage of them.-Anataole France
7.Talent is being able to please people.-Marty Robbins(American country singer,1925-1982).
8.The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning-in other words,of absurdity-the more energetically meaning is sought.-Vaclav Havel
9.Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.-Doug Larson

Some nice quotes and proverbs

1.The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body.-Philippine proverb.
2.There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.-George Bernard Shaw
3.You won't help shoots grow by pulling them up higher.-Chinese proverb
4.The magnificence of the mountains,the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.-Loudon Wainwright
5.Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.-Karel Capek
6.Everything flows and nothing stays-----You can't step into the same river twice.-Heraclitus
7.Many think that vulgarity is the opposite of snobbery;but snobbery is only a form of the vulgar.The real opposite of vulgarity is dignity.-Robert Hughes

Hodgepodge of interesting quips and proverbs I found

1.If the truth of a proposition depended on the number of people who believed in it,the Earth would still be flat.-Richard Prebble
2.Only fools are glad when governments change.-Romanian proverb
3.Cowards have dreams,brave men have visions.-Chinese proverb
4.The easy way is always mined.
5.Live your life in such a way that the preacher doesn't have to tell lies at your funeral.
6.The saving man becomes a free man.-Chinese proverb
7.One nail drives out another.-Chinese proverb
8.One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.-Chinese proverb

Potpourri of quotes and quips

1.To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.-Victor Hugo
2.Whenever people talk to me about the weather,I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.-Oscar Wilde
3.One dog barks at something,the rest bark at him.-Chinese proverb
4.You only live once-but if you work it right,once is enough.-Joe E.Lewis
5.We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.-Karl Popper
6.It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.-St.Francis of Assissi.
7.In politics people throw themselves as on a sickbed,from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.-Goethe
8.Of all the joys that lighten suffering Earth,what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?-Dorothy Nolte
9.It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up,another falls to pieces.-Helen Fielding
10.The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.-Marshall Foch

A batch of interesting quotations and proverbs

1.A great man always considers the timing before he acts.-Chinese proverb
2.Experts never make mistakes;they misjudge the situation.And even if they do make a mistake,it is an interesting mistake.-Stephen R.Gould
3.Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.-Byron Langenfeld
4.Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.-W.R.Inge
5.One hand cannot applaud.-Arab proverb
6.The heart of a fool is in his mouth,but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.-Benjamin Franklin
7.I don't think necessity is the mother of invention-invention,in my opinion,arises directly from idleness,also from laziness.To save oneself trouble.-Agatha Christie

A slew of interesting quotes and proverbs

1.The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.-Nicholas Chamfort
2.When I grow up,I want to be a little boy.-Joseph Heller
3.A single tree cannot make a forest.-Chinese proverb
4.One generation plants trees,another gets the shade.-Chinese proverb
5.Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fuelled by a quotation.-E.M.Cioran
6What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?-Jean-Jacques-Rousseau.
7.We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.-James M.Barrie
8The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
9.All the world loves a good loser.-Kin Hubbard

Potpourri of quotes and proverbs

1.Old birds are hard to pluck.-German proverb
2.A wise person makes his own decisions,a weak one obeys public opinion.-Chinese proverb
3.Our schools are improving.It's childhoods that are not.-Keith Geiger.
4.Necessity has the face of a dog.-Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
5.A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.-Tom Wolfe
6.The weather belongs to us all.-Margaret(Ma)Murray.
7.Superstition is the poetry of life.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8.It is better to waste one's youth than do nothing with it at all.-Georges Courteline
9.An election is a bet on the future,not a popularity test of the past.-James Reston
10.Death cancels everything but truth,and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue.It is a sort of natural canonization.-William Hazlitt.

Three good quotes

1.It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.-Voltaire
2.No man can swim ashore and take his baggage with him.-Seneca the Younger,on THE FUTILITY OF HALFWAY MEASURES.
3.It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.-Zelda Fitzgerald

A jambalaya of interesting quotes and proverbs

1.The river does not swell with clear water.-Italian proverb
2.Love is a kind of military service.-LATIN PROVERB
3.Decadence can find agents only when it wears the masks of progress.-George Bernard Shaw
4.The bold enterprises are the successful ones.Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.-Rutherford B.Hayes
5War is like love;it always finds a way.-Bertolt Brecht
6.Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.-Jewish proverb
7.One lies to oneself more than to anyone else.-Lord Byron
8.A man is not where he lives,but where he loves.-Latin proverb
9.We must change our ideas when they have served their purpose,as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.-Claude Bernard
10.Canada is like an old cow.The West feeds it.Ontario and Quebec milk it.And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.-Tommy Douglas.
11.Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.-Paul Valery

A raft of interesting quotes,quips and proverbs

1.Those who have never had the extreme good fortune of living with royalty,should just go out and get a cat.-Marjorie Benson White
2.When it comes to three,they have to go thirsty.-Chinese proverb
3.Only that day dawns to which we are awake.-Henry David Thoreau.
4.The reliability of the person giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.Keep in mind that facts are seldom facts,but what people think are facts,heavily tinged with assumptions.-Harold Geneen.
5.Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.-Chinese proverb
6.A proud man is always looking down on things and people;and,of course,as long as you're looking down,you can't see something that's above you.-C.S.Lewis

A raft of interesting quotes,quips and proverbs

1.Those who have never had the extreme good fortune of living with royalty,should just go out and get a cat.-Marjorie Benson White
2.When it comes to three,they have to go thirsty.-Chinese proverb
3.Only that day dawns to which we are awake.-Henry David Thoreau.
4.The reliability of the person giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.Keep in mind that facts are seldom facts,but what people think are facts,heavily tinged with assumptions.-Harold Geneen.
5.Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.-Chinese proverb
6.A proud man is always looking down on things and people;and,of course,as long as you're looking down,you can't see something that's above you.-C.S.Lewis

Two more good quotes

1.It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.-Whitney Young Jr.
2.Take your life in your own hands,and what happens?A terrible thing:noone to blame.-Erica Jong.

A mish-mash of quotes,quips and proverbs

1.Solitude is fine,but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.-Honore de Balzac
2.If you wish good advice,consult an old man.-Romanian proverb
3.To see things in the seed,that is genius.-Lao-tzu
4.One must cut before filing,carve before polishing.-Chinese proverb
5.Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.-Edward E.Murrow
6.Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.-Samuel Butler
7.An agnostic is an atheist who has hedged his bet.
8.Recollection is the manipulation of memory.-Herbie Cohen
9.Dust in the air made wonders of the sunset.-Paul Horgan in LAMY OF SANTA FE
10.The novel and journalism are children of the same mother.-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11.Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.-French proverb
12.The way a long work is completed is by daily tapping the first imaginative impulse.-Paul Horgan
13.Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.-Spanish proverb
14.Don't doctor a dead horse as if it were alive.-Chinese proverb
15.Whether you think you can or think you can't,you're right.-Henry Ford
16.Ridding oneself of this feeling that the universe has a personal grudge against one is the first and most
difficult task in growing to adulthood.-Colin Wilson

Some quotes applicable in modern life

1.Irony differentiates.Cynicism never does.-Paul Hogan(b.1903)
2.Everything is connected------no one thing can change by itself.-Paul Hawken(b.1946)
3.As a small businessman,you have no greater leverage than the truth.-Paul Hawken,Finance and Economics.
4.How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?-Paul Hawken,American author.
5.We can have a democratic society or we can have a great and concentrated wealth in the hands of a few:we cannot have both.-Louis Brandeis.
6.There is no 'I' in the word 'TEAM'.-Anonymous

A gumbo of quotes,proverbs and slogans

1.One Earth,one chance.-Sierra club
2.Your library is your portrait.-Holbrook Jackson
3.Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.-Patty Hansen
4.He who searches for pearls should not sleep.-Lybran proverb
5.Preserve the old,but know the new.-Chinese proverb
6.Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.-Susanne Curchod Necker
7.When we are not sure,we are alive.-Graham Greene
8.Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself,even though you never touch its coattail.-Clarence Darrow
9.What ignorance deemed crystal,wisdom finds out was dew.-Robert Browning
10.When a man is willing and eager,the gods join in.-Aeschylus.
11.Character-the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life-is the source from which self-respect springs.-Joan Didion
12.It takes two to make a quarrel,but only one to end it.

A medley of quotes,proverbs,and slogans

1.Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.-Terry Pratchett.
2.Nothing is too wonderful to be true.-Michael Faraday.
3.Half the world is thriving,the other half is on a diet.-Woody Allen
4.A man does not sin by commission only,but often by omission.-Marcus Aurelius.
5.He that will learn to pray,let him go to sea.-George Herbert
6.Every achievement is a servitude.It drives us to a higher achievement.-Albert Camus.
7.The earth is nobler than the world we have put upon it.-J.B.Priestley
8.The road to success is always under construction.
9.Fear for one's daily bread destroys one's character.-Franz Kafka.
10.Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.-Chinese proverb
11.The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.-George Orwell
12.Kindness in a bucket is returned in a barrel.-Chinese proverb
13.How lovely are the wiles of words.-Emily Dickinson.
14.Many a false step is made standing still.-From a fortune cookie.
15.I scan therefore I am.
16.Only the stirring spoon knows the troubles of the pot.-Grandma Polizzi.
17.Wisdom is hindsight disguised as foresight.-Welsh proverb

A hodgepodge of interesting quotes or proverbs

1.Conservative:One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.-Leo Rosten
2.You aim for what you want and if you don't get it,you don't get it,but if you don't aim,you don't get anything.-Francine Prose
3.Man builds no structure which outlives a book.-Eugene Ware
4.A room without books is like a body without a soul.-Cicero
5.The truth shall make you odd.-Flannery O'Connor
6.A little subversion is good for the soul.-From The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
7.The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
8.Education is not preparation for life;education is life itself.-John Dewey
9.Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.-Albert Schweitzer