Wednesday, May 31, 2006

More interesting quotes or jokes

1.Guess if you can and choose if you dare.-Pierre Corneille
2.I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours.I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.-Sir Winston Churchill
3.Call it a clan,call it a network,call it a tribe,call it a family.Whatever you call it,whoever you are,you need one.-Jane Howard
4.They laughed at Joan of Arc,but she went right ahead and built it.-Gracie Allen
5.In war there can never be too much deception.-Chinese proverb
6.Married people don't have to exercise,our attitude is 'They've seen us naked already-and they like it.''
-Carol Montgomery
7.Internet humour.
What is a man's idea of helping with the housework?
Lifting his leg so the wife can vacuum.

A few good quotes,jokes or proverbs

1.Proverbs contradict each other.That is the wisdom of a nation.-Stanislaw Jerzy Lec.
2.Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.-Spanish proverb
3.Obstacles cannot crush me;every obstacle yields to stern resolve.-Leonardo da Vinci

Monday, May 29, 2006

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1.Optimism doesn't wait on facts.It deals with prospects.Pessimism is a waste of time.-Norman Cousins
2.Internet Humor
Why is divorce so expensive?
Because it's worth it.

Stimulating quotes or proverbs

1.In a closed society where everybody's guilty,the only crime is getting caught.In a world of thieves,the only final sin is stupidity.-Hunter S.Thompson
2.If men could menstruate----clearly,menstruation would become an enviable,boastworthy,masculine event.-Gloria Steinem
3.Animals,whom we have made our slaves,we do not like to consider our equal.-Charles Darwin
4.Life is a roller coaster.You can either scream every time you hit a bump or you can throw your hands up in the air and enjoy it.-Anonymous
5.He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.-Rabindranath Tagore
6.Everyone wants to live at the expensie of the state.They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.-Frederick Bastiat
7.Before you take anything away,you must have something better to put in its place.-Arthur Schopenhauer
8.Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.-Maori proverb

A batch of smart quotes or proverbs

1.The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.-Agatha Christie
2.The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.-H.L.Mencken
3.Truth never dies,but lives a wretched life.-Yiddish proverb
4.I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.-Jean Ingelow
5.To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.-Chinese proverb
6.All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from,and to,and why.-James Thurber.
7.The leaves of a tree are many,but the root is one.-Chinese proverb.
8.We must beat the iron while it is hot,but we may polish it at leisure.-John Dryden
9.Optism doesn't wait on facts.It deals with prospects.Pessimism is a waste of time.-NOrman Cousins

More quotes and quips I like

1.Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.-Michel de Montaigne
2.For most men,the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.-Ivan Illich
3.Patience can conquer destiny.-Irish proverb
4.There's a mighty big difference betweeen good,sound reasons and reasons that sound good.-Burton Hills
5.Silence condemns more effectively than loud accusations.-Chinese proverb.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

9 Quotes and proverbs you like

1.Appealing workplaces are to be avoided.One wants a room with no view,so imagination can meet memory in the dark.-Annie Dillard
2.I listen to the wind;to the wind of my soul.-Cat Stevens
3.Learning is like a horizon;there is no limit.-Chinese proverb
4.Save the trees.Wipe your ass with an owl-I saw this on the T-shirt of a young guy on the bus 350,from Atwater metro on the way to ville Lasalle.
5.All adventures,especially into new territory,are scary.-Sally Ride
6.A thousand regrets do not cancel one debt.-Turkish proverb
7.Don't try to scoop the moon from the bottom of the sea.-Chinese proverb
8.I'm not going to vacuum till Sears makes one you can ride on.-Roseann
9.To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.-Helen Keller

Monday, May 15, 2006

Cerebral quotes or proverbs

1.The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.-Igor Sikorsky
2.Ninety-percent of the people in the world are fools,and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.-Thornton Wilder
3.Today,a young person does not generally go off to university with the expectation of having an intellectual adventure,of discovering strange new worlds,of finding out what the comprehensive truth about man is.This is partly because he already knows,partly because he thinks such truth unavailable.-Allan Bloom
4.The line separating good and evil passes not through states,nor between classes,nor between political parties either,but right through every human heart.-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

More interesting quotes or proverbs

1.Think much,speak little,write less.-French proverb
2.There is no greater calamity than being consumed by greed.-Chinese proverb
3.No person is a friend who demands your silence.-Alice Walker
4.As charms are nonsense,nonsense is a charm.-Benjamin Franklin.
5.Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.-Aesop
6.I've learned you can make a mistake and the world doesn't end.-Lisa Kudrow
7.Too low they build who build below the skies.-Edward Young
8.The significance of a man is not what he attains,but rather in what he longs tyo attain.-Kahlil Gibran
9.Like an old gold-panning prospector,you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.-Dorothy Bryant

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Worthy quotes or proverbs

1.A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.-Chinese proverb
2.There is no flying without wings.-French proverb
3.There is no worse robber than a bad book.-Italian proverb
4.A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.-Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Worthy quotes or proverbs

1.A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.-Chinese proverb
2.There is no flying without wings.-French proverb
3.There is no worse robber than a bad book.-Italian proverb
4.A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.-Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Stimulating quotes

1.The object of punishment is prevention from evil;it never can be made impulsive to good.-Horace Mann
2.Writing is a messy business.You wind up with shoeboxes of scrap paper.-Cormac McCarthy
3.A cloth is not woven from a single thread.-Chinese proverb
4.In rivers and bad governments,the lightest things swim to the top.-Benjamin Franklin
5.Poverty is the worst form of violence.-Mahatma Gandhi
6.Life is partly what we make it,and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.-Chinese proverb<
7.All Americans lecture-----I suppose it is something in their climate.-Oscar Wilde
8.Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.-Chinese proverb
9.A camel is a horse designed by a committee.-Old saw
10.Donkey's lips do not fit into a horse's mouth.-Chinese proverb
11.The man who has no problems is out of the game.-Elbert Hubbard

Some great quotes or proverbs

1.The most dangerous man, to any government ,is the man who is able to think things out for himself.-H.L.Mencken
2.Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.-Simone Weil
3.Men don't care what's on TV.They only care what else is on TV.-Jerry Seinfeld
4.The car has become an article of dresswithout which we feel uncertain and unclad,and incomplete,in the urban compound.-Marshall McLuhan
5.Disappointments should be cremated,not embalmed.-Henry Haskins
6.Sorrow is the child of too much joy.-Chinese proverb
7.Did you know,in the entire universe,we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have Miss UNiverse Contest.-Lily Tomlin
8.But though an old man,I am but a young gardener.-Thomas Jefferson
9.A snake deserves no pity.-Yiddish proverb