Monday, October 30, 2006

Eleven good quotes and proverbs

1.Everything terrible is something that needs our love.-Rainer Maria Rilke
2.No need to teach an eagle to fly.-Greek proverb
3.Talk about choice:talk about others and be a gossip or talk about yourself and be a bore.-Laurence Peter
4.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.It is the means that determine the end.-Harry Emerson Fosdick
5.Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age,when the sense of curiosity has withered.-Graham Greene
6.Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.-Milan Kundera
7.More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.-Edna St.Vincent Millay
8.Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.-Barbara Ehrenreich
9.America is addicted to wars of distraction.-Barbara Ehrenreich.
10.A crow is no whiter for being washed.-French proverb
11.Marriage is socialism among two people.-Barbara Ehrenreich

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Ten great quotes and proverbs

1.One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.-Walter Bagehot
2.People do not like to think.If one thinks,one must reach conclusions.Conclusions are not always pleasant.-Helen Keller
3.Force,unaided by judgment,collapses through its own weight.-Horace
4.It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.-Denise Levertov
5.The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.-Edmund Burke
6.Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.-Zora Neale Hurston
7.The latest definition of an optimist is one who fills up his crossword puzzle in ink.-Clement Shorter
8.The writer should never be ashamed of staring.There is nothing that does not require his attention.-Flannery O'Connor
9.Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.-Zora Neale HUrston
10.The colour of truth is grey.-French author Andre Gide.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Twelve good quotes or proverbs

1.Many a great man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts.If he had never met defeat he would never
have known any great victory.-Orison Swett Marden
2.True friends,like diamonds,are precious and rare.False friends,like autumn leaves,are found elsewhere.-Anonymous.
3.Politics is all about power.Poverty means having no power.-Mel Hurtig,Canadian author and publisher.
4.Lying is done with words and also with silence.-Adrienne Rich
5.A man's ruin lies in his tongue.-Egyptian proverb
6.The unconscious wants the truth.It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.-Adrienne Rich
7.If you don't like how things are,change it!You're not a tree.-Jim Rohn
8.Take a chance!All life is a chance.The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.-Dale Carnegie
9.Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.-Benjamin Franklin
10.True friends,like diamonds,are precious and rare.False friends,like autumn leaves,are found everywhere.-Anonymous
11.The moment of change is the only poem.-Adrienne Rich
12.We say we waste time,but that is impossible.We waste ourselves.-Alice Bloch

Friday, October 20, 2006

Nine good quotes and proverbs

1.Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion.-Will Rogers
2.Creativity is the restructuring of magic.-Anne Kent Rush
3.Call on God,but row away from the rocks.-Chinese proverb(Earlier sources I saw listed this as an African proverb)
4.Love tells us many things that are not so.-Ukrainian proverb
5.Poverty without complaint is hard,just as wealth with arrogance is easy.-Chinese proverb
6.I don't know if God exists,but it would be better for His reputation if he didn't.-Jules Renard
7.Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other.But it is not so widely recognized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.-Rebecca West
8.Chivalry is not dead,it is decomposing.
9.Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Five good quotes and proverbs

1.Speech is civilization itself.The word preserves contact.It is silence which isolates.-Thomas Mann
2.Sanity is the most profound moral option of our time.-Renata Adler
3.It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people into action,while the distant hope acts as an opiate.-Eric Hoffer
4.Commit a crime,and the world is made of glass.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
5.No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, October 16, 2006

A nice bundle of quotes and proverbs

1.Worry less about what people think about you,and more about what you think of them.-Fay Weldon
2.To chop a tree quickly,spend twice the time sharpening your ax.-Chinese proverb
3.Writers,however mature and wise and eminent,are children at heart.-Edna O' Brien
4.To be truly happy and contented,you must let go of what it means to be happy and contented.-Chinese proverb
5.Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.-Cicero
6.Let every fox take care of its own tail.-Italian proverb
7.A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.-U.S.violinist Ruggiero Ricci
8.Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.-Erica Jong
9.The snob's error is to put good taste before a good heart.-Joseph Epstein,SNOBBERY(Houghton Mifflin)
10.Intellect annulls Fate.So far as a man thinks,he is free.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
11.If I have lost confidence in myself,I have the universe against me.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
12.New York is a sucked orange.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Great quotes and proverbs

1.For the happiest life,days should be rigorously planned,nights left open to chance.-Mignon McLaughlin
2.It is only through the heart that one can see rightly;what is essential is invisible to the eye.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
3.That's te risk you take if you change:that,other people you've been involved with won't like the new you.But other people who do will come along.-Lisa Alther
4.A fly is as untamable as a hyena.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
5.If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
6.Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.In the morning a man walks with his whole body;in the evening,only with his legs.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choice quotes and proverbs

1.A room without books is like a body without a soul.-Cicero
2.If there is no wind,row.-Chinese proverb

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Five new quotes and proverbs/slogans

1.Fraud and falsehood only dread examination.Truth invites it.-Dr.Samuel Johnson,English author and lexicographer,1709-1784.
2.All frauds,like the wall daubed with untempered mortar-----always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.-Richard Whately
3.The results of cousins breeding:linedancing.
4.Beware of one with a honeyed tongue and a sword in his belly.-Chinese proverb
5.God promises a safe landing,but not a smooth passage.-Bulgarian proverb

Nine great quotes,proverbs and T-shirt slogans

1.Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.-Truman Capote
2.Goodness speaks in a whisper,evil shouts.-Tibetan proverb
3.Experience is a dim lamp,which only lights the one who bears it.-Louis Ferdinand Celine
4.For every expert,there is an equal and opposite expert.-Mike Duxbury
5.Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.-Sophocles
6.God gave teeth;He will give bread.-Lithuanian proverb
7.It is better to have a few newspapers out of step with the times than three thousand executing an editorial goosestep.Richard Wilson,journalist,1941
8.Secrecy is a badge of fraud.-Sir John Chadwick,British judge,born 1941
9.Bury me upside down so the world can kiss my ass.-T-SHIRT MESSAGE