Seven great quotes or proverbs

1.Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.-Paul Tournier
2.Large demands on oneself and little demands on others keep resentment at bay.-Chinese proverb
3.There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.-French proverb
4.To me,every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.-Walt Whitman
5.There is not enough room for two elephants to sit in the same shade.-African(Ovambo) proverb
6.It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.-Benjamin Franklin
7.Men of intemperate minds cannot be free;their passions forge their fetters.-Edmund Burke

French proverb

1.There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich.-French proverb

Many quotes and sayings for thinking pleasure

1.I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.-Calvin and Hobbes
2.Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.-Calvin and Hobbes
3.Just remember--it's not a lie if you believe it.-George Costanza
4The past is a guiding post,not a hitching post.-L.Thomas Holcroft
5.To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils.-Thomas Holcroft(1745-1816),THE ADVENTURES OF HUGH TREVOR,1794.
6.My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to The New York Times Building.-Ann Coulter,Syndicated columnist
7.Readers----no less than writers [ARE] the gate keepers of truth.-Laurent Grenier,author of the book A REASON FOR LIVING.
8.The best mind-altering drug is the truth.-Lily Tomlin
9.Life without courage is like a bird without wings;it cannot take off.-Laurent Grenier
10.Don't give up!Once you stop fighting,you start dying.-Laurent Grenier
11.What we learn with pleasure we never forget.-Alfred Mercier
12.I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.-Calvin and Hobbes
13.Love is an ill conceived dream,hardwired into gullible people's brains in order to keep them breeding.
14.Be thankful for what you have----you'll end up having more.-Oprah Winfrey
15.The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.-Kent Hill,quoting Lou Holtz

Good quotes or proverbs

1.To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism.-William Hazlitt
2.Inspiration comes from perspiration.-Chinese proverb
3.There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.-Chinese proverb
4.If God had really intended men to fly,he'd make it easier to get to the airport.-George Winters
5.I have never seen a bad television program because I refuse to.God gave me a mind,and a wrist that turns things off.-Jack Paar
6.Take everything you like seriously,except yourselves.-Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)
7.The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.-Bret Harte

Five good quotes or proverbs

1.Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.-Italian proverb
2.When two people part,it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.-Marcel Proust
3.The wise adapt themselves to circumstances,as water moulds itself to the pitcher.-Chinese proverb
4.People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.-Kurt Vonnegut Jr,BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
5.The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods,or no god.It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.-Thomas Jefferson

Three quotes and proverbs for contemplation

1.Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in----Fear and resentment of what is new is really a laqment for the memories of our own childhood.-Peter Medawar
2.Since a politician never believes what he says,he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.-Charles De Gaulle
3.One notices,
if one will trust your eyes,
The shadow cast by language
Upon truth.-W.H.Auden

Three quotes and proverbs to entertain

1.Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.-George McDonald.
2.Better to starve free than be a fat slave.-Aesop
3.I am I plus my surroundings,and if I do not preserve the latter,I do not preserve myself.-Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Quotes or sayings that provide fodder for contemplation

1.The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither.The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.- Economist Milton Friedman(1912-2006)
2.Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it:innocence is
like a dumb leper who has lost his bell,wandering the world,meaning no harm.-Graham Bell
3.Recycling aluminum cans in the company cafeteria and ceremonial tree planting,are about as effective as bailing out the
Titanic with teaspoons.-Paul Hawken,in the book THE ECOLOGY OF COMMERCE(1993),page 5.

A couple of quotes or proverbs

1.Rent and taxes never sleep.-German proverb.
2.Language is fossil poetry.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,1844.

Four great proverbs or quotes

1.Time keeps on slipping into the future.-Line from the 1977 Steve Miller song `Fly Like An Eagle.'
2.Language is fossil petry.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,1844.
3.Good words make us laugh;good deeds make us silent.-French proverb
4.People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.-French proverb

Quotes and proverbs that provide fuel for thought

1.Noone can see their reflection in running water.It is only in still water that we can see.-Taoist proverb
2.I am not interested in reading or writing what I already think.The whole point of writing as I do is to go forward as a thinker or philosopher.-Lyn Hejinian
3.When people put their ballots in the boxes,they are by that act,inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs.They then accept ,in some measure,that its errors are their errors,its aberrations their aberrations,that any revolt will be against themselves.It's a
remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.-John Kenneth Galbraith
4.I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.-E.M.Forster,as a small child.

12 great quotes and proverbs

1.The four most beautiful words in our common language:I told you so.-Gore Vidal
2.Ready money works great cures.-French proverb
3.Once,in the finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy.-Thomas Ernest Hulme
4.How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-heroes!-Maya Angelou
5.We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart.-Chinese proverb
6.In this country,when you finish second no one knows your name.-Frank McGuire
7.Many a necklace becomes a noose.-Paul Eldridge
8.Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.-Paul Eldridge
9.Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.-Paul Eldridge
10.Reading the epitaphs,our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.-Paul Eldridge
11.It's not excellence which leads to celebrity,but celebrity which leads to excellence;one makes one's reputation,and one's reputation enables one to achieve the conditions in which one can do good work.-Michael Frayn
12.The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse--that is to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.-H.L.Mencken

Some great quotes and proverbs as fodder for thought

1.I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.-May Sarton
2.Not everyone can be an orphan.-Andre Gide.
3.Don't let Sunday be taken from you.If your soul has no Sunday,it becomes an orphan.-Albert Schweitzer
4.With the stones we cast at them,geniuses build new roads with them.-Paul Eldridge.
5.History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.-Paul Eldridge
6.Man is ready to die for an idea,provided that idea is not quite clear to him.-Paul Eldridge
7.In the spider-web of facts,many a truth is strangled.-Paul Eldridge
8.Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.-Paul Eldridge
9.There are those whose sole claim to authority is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.-Paul Eldridge
10.If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves,few would escape the gallows.-Paul Eldridge

Eight good quotes,proverbs or sayings

1.I can't write five words but that I change seven.-Dorothy Parker
2.Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.-H.L.Mencken(1880-1956)
3.Listen to all,plucking a feather from every passing goose,but follow noone absolutely.-Chinese proverb
4.Like the greedy merchants of bazaars,if we get out of life what we ask for,we are unhappy for not having asked for more.-Paul Eldridge
5.To have striven,to have made an effort,to have been true to certain ideals----this alone is worth the
struggle.We are here to add what we can to,noty to get what we can from life.-William Osler.
6.You know the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens.-Prospector Bob Curtin in''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
7.Rats know the way of rats.-Chinese proverb
8.All books are either dreams or swords.-Amy Lowell.

11 nice quotes and proverbs

1.An election is coming.Universal peace is declared,and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.-George Eliot
2.I read constantly.If I don't have a good book,I'm beside myself.-Gail Godwin
3.You have to be patient if you are an artist.People don't always get you the first time.-Kate Miller
4.At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look;at 45 they are caves in which we hide.-F.Scott Fitzgerald
5.The one thing that's worse than hearing about all the violence and all the bad news on television is not being permitted to hear it.-Charles Kuralt
6.Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.-Denise Levertov
7.All government is,in its essence,organized exploitation ,and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.-H.L.Mencken
8.Dealing with backstabbers ,there was one thing I learned.They're only powerful when you got your back turned.-Eminem
9.Everything else you grow out of,but you never recover from childhood.-Beryl Bainbridge
10.The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow.Life is a crazy ride,and nothing is guaranteed.-Rap star Eminem(b.1972)
11.To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.-Anonymous

Ten good quotes and proverbs

1.A parasite cannot live alone.-African(Ovambo) proverb.
2.All authority belongs to the people.-Thomas Jefferson
3.Every election is a sort of advance auction of stolen goods.-H.L.Mencken(1880-1956)
4.The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.-Jewish proverb
5.Adversity is a mirror that reveals one's true self.-Chinese proverb
6.We never graduate from the first grade.Over and over,we have to go back to the beginning.-Natalie Goldberg
7.I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken.-Eudora Welty
8.Children,like animals,use all their senses to discover the world.-Eudora Welty
9.To look back is to relax one's vigil.-Bette Davis
10.Of a compliment only a third is meant.-Welsh proverb