Thursday, December 28, 2006

Six nice quotes

1.Learning to write may be a part of learning to read.For all I know,writing comes from a superior devotion to reading.-Eudora Welty
2.If you wake up breathing,congratulations!You have another chance.-Andrea Boydston
3.The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering,suffering about which we can do nothing.-May Sarton
4.Glory is acquired,honor is inherited;glory is ours to win,honour is ours to lose.-Anonymous
5.Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.-Anonymous
6.We're fools whether we dance or not,so we might as well dance.-Chinese proverb

Ten good quotes

1.A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.-Eudora Welty
2.To imagine yourself inside another person----is what a storyteller does in every piece of work;it is his first step,and his last too,I suppose.-Eudora Welty
3.The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.-Mignon McLaughlin
4.Do not call for black power or green power.Call for brain power.-Barbara Jordan
5.The desire to write grows with writing.-Erasmus
6.All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.-F.Scott Fitzgerald
7.Never ruin an apology with an excuse.-Kimberly Johnson
8.We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.-Dakota Indian proverb
9.Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen ,and eight times out of nine I"ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.-Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski
10.For a marriage to have any chance,every day at least six things should go unsaid.-Jill Craig

Thursday, December 21, 2006

10 fresh quotes and proverbs

1.Sit loosely in the saddle of life.-Robert Louis Stevenson
2.The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.-Arab proverb
3.Everything really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.-Albert Einstein
4.Astrology proves just one scientific fact:there's one born every minute.-Patrick Moore
5.Once bitten by a snake,he/she is scared all his/her life at the mere sight of a rope.-Chinese proverb
6.People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.-Murasaki Shikibu
7.I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.-Jeff Dennis
8.Government does not tax to get the money it needs;government always finds a need for the money it gets.-Ronald Reagan
9.In nature,two things do not occur----the wheel and good taste.-John Steinbeck
10.Straighten up your room first,then the world.-Jeff Jordan

Monday, December 18, 2006

Six great quotes or proverbs

1.The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.-Gary Larson
2.The desire of one man to live on the fruits of another's labor is the original sin of the world.-James O' Brien
3.What time would it be if all the clocks were stopped?-Zen saying
4.Law and justice are not always the same.When they aren't destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.-Gloria Steinem
5.Learn as though you would never be able to master it;hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.-Chinese proverb
6.Successful investing is anticipating the anticipation of others.-John Maynard Keynes

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Six good quotes and proverbs

1.When you have no choice,mobilize the spirit of courager.-Jewish proverb
2.A promise is most given when least said.-George Chapman
3.To tell only half the truth is to give life to a new lie.-Chinese proverb
4.True remorse is never just a regret over consequence;it is a regret over motive.-Mignon Mclaughlin
5.Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry.-Charles Osgood
6.An apology is the superglue of life.It can repair just about anything.-Lynn Johnston

Friday, December 15, 2006

Ten good quotes or proverbs

1.Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.-Lorraine Hansberry(d.1965),a playwright and painter.
2.When the time comes,even a rat becomes a tiger.-Japanese proverb
3.Fate leads those who are willing but must push those who are not.-Chinese proverb
4.When glory comes,loss of memory follows.-French proverb
5.Don't agonise,organise.-Florence Kennedy
6.Results come in proportion to enthusiasm applied.-David Schwartz
7.It's not whether you get knocked down,it's whether you get up.-Vince Lombardi
8.Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.-Anthony Eden
9.every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.-Henry Brooks Adams
10.My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne.-John Maynard Keynes

Monday, December 11, 2006

A few wise quotes or proverbs

1.What government is best?That which teaches us to govern ourselves.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2.If you have never done anything evil,you should not be worrying about devils to knock at your door.-Chinese proverb
3.When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.-Hindu proverb
4.That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet.-Emily Dickinson,born December 10,1830.
5.Connections are made slowly;sometimes they grow underground.You cannot tell always by looking what is happening.More than half a tree is spread out in the soil under your feet.-Marge Piercy in her book,CIRCLES IN THE WATER.
6.Nothing is faster than the speed of light----To prove this to yourself,try opening the refrigerator door before the light comes on.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Seven good quotes and proverbs

1.We will seek truth and will endure the consequences.-Charles Seymour(1865-1963)
2.There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.-John Kenneth Galbraith
3.There is nothing more visible than what is secret,and nothing more manifest than what is minute.-Chinese proverb
4.When you are kind to someone in trouble,you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else.And it'll become like a wildfire.-Whoopi Goldberg
5.When I find myself in the company of scientists,I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.-W.H.Auden
6.Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.-Andre Maurois(1885-1967)
7.What orators lack in depth,they make up for in length.-Baron de Montesquieu(1689-1755)

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Five good quotes or proverbs

1.We do good because it frees the heart.It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.-Sharon Salzberg
2.Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.-Romanian proverb
3.Weaving a net is better than praying for fish at the edge of the water.-Chinese proverb
4.There are no new truths,but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.A truth is something that everybody can be shown to know and to be known,as people say,all along.-Mary McCarthy
5.Nature is commonplace.Imitation is more interesting.-Gertrude Stein

Five good quotes or proverbs

1.We do good because it frees the heart.It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.-Sharon Salzberg
2.Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.-Romanian proverb
3.Weaving a net is better than praying for fish at the edge of the water.-Chinese proverb
4.There are no new truths,but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.A truth is something that everybody can be shown to know and to be known,as people say,all along.-Mary McCarthy
5.Nature is commonplace.Imitation is more interesting.-Gertrude Stein

Five good quotes or proverbs

1.We do good because it frees the heart.It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.-Sharon Salzberg
2.Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.-Romanian proverb
3.Weaving a net is better than praying for fish at the edge of the water.-Chinese proverb
4.There are no new truths,but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.A truth is something that everybody can be shown to know and to be known,as people say,all along.-Mary McCarthy
5.Nature is commonplace.Imitation is more interesting.-Gertrude Stein

Friday, December 08, 2006

Nine good quotes and proverbs

1.Truth is the safest lie.-Yiddish proverb
2.Knowledge leads either to reverence or arrogance.-Anonymous
3.Knowledge is the life of the mind.-Abu Bakr
4.The palest ink is better than the best memory.-Chinese proverb
5.A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.-Marshall McLuhan
6.Do not forget birthdays.This is no way a propaganda for a larger population.-Gertrude Stein
7.It is better to try big things,even though checkered by failure,than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.-Theodore Roosevelt
8.Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and salvation.-Gertrude Stein
9.I think we should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt.As long as the tenderness is there but please let some of the contempt be there,because we know what we're like,we know how we hustle and bustle and shove and push,and you sometimes use grand words to cloak it.-Dennis Potter

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Four great quotes and proverbs

1.Is it worse to be scared than to be bored,that is the question.-Gertrude Stein
2.A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.-Film director,script writer and actor Wesley Ruggles.
3.Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.-Gertrude Stein
4.I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.-Gertrude Stein

Ten great quotes or proverbs

1.When saving for old age,be sure to put away a few pleasant thoughts.-Anonymous
2.He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.-Chinese proverb
3.To govern mankind,one must not overrate them.-Lord Chesterfield
4.To compare is not to prove.-French proverb
5.Write a little everyday,without hope,without despair.-Isak Dinesen
6.Ideas are,in truth,forces.Infinite,too,is the power of personality.A union of the two always makes history.-Henry James
7.Do not go where the path may lead,go instead where there is no path,and leave a trail.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
8.I never lecture,not because I am shy or a bad speaker,but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.-H.L.Mencken
9.A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.-Gertrude Stein.
10.As always art is the pulse of a nation.-Gertrude Stein

Illuminating quotes or sayings

1.Those who lose dreaming are lost.-Australian aboriginal proverb
2.Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine
3.To be good is noble;but to show others to be good is nobler and no trouble.-Mark Twain

Fifteen great quotes or proverbs

1.Though you live near a forest,do not waste firewood.-Chinese proverb
2.You can fake being cool,but you can't fake being good.-Chuck Klosterman in ESQUIRE.
3.Mankind is safer when men seek pleasure than when they seek the power and the glory.-Geoffrey Gorer
4.The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.-William Morris
5.Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.-Spanish proverb
6.It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.-Robert Louis Stevenson
7.One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to surmount a fear every day.It will make you stronger,happier.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
8.Be a life long or short,its completeness depends on what it was lived for.-David Starr Jordan
9.Nothing quite new is perfect.-Marcus Tullis Cicero
10.To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.-Chinese proverb
11.Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.-Soren Kierkegaard
12.One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.-Chinese proverb
13.Holidays are an expensive trial of strength.The only satisfaction comes from survival.-Jonathan Miller
14.An error the width of a hair can lead one a thousand miles astray.-Chinese proverb
15.Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.-Gertrude Stein