Three great quotes

1.Why do people always expect authors to answer questions?I am an author because I ask questions.-Eugene Ionesco.
2.If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity,and let my efforts be known by their results.-Emily Bronte
3.The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.They don't alter their views to fit the facts.They alter the facts to fit the views,which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering.-Doctor Who

1912 Editorial on the Titanic Sinking from the Pittsburgh Courrier

Newspaper editorial,THE PITTSBURGH COURRIER,APRIL 27,1912.
The Negroes who consider their poverty a curse may find consolation in the fact that they were not wealthy enough to take passage on the Titanic.Every adversity has its virtue.

1912 Editorial on the Titanic Sinking from the Pittsburgh Courrier

Newspaper editorial,THE PITTSBURGH COURRIER,APRIL 27,1912.
The Negroes who consider their poverty a curse may find consolation in the fact that they were not wealthy enough to take passage on the Titanic.Every adversity has its virtue.

18 great quotes and proverbs

1.Poets are like baseball pitchers.Both have their moments.The intervals are the tough things.-Robert Frost
2.A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent.-Danish proverb
3.People find happiness in both wisdom and folly,virtue and vice.Contentment is no index of true worth.-Vauvenargues(1715-47)
4.Often one finds destiny just where one hides to avoid it.-Chinese proverb
5.I thought I wanted a career.Turns out I just wanted a pay cheque.-Poster in a Los Angeles office,1997.
6.Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.-Japanese proverb
7.A full cup must be carried steadily.-English proverb
8.The typical lawmaker of today is a man devoid of principle-a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game.If the right pressure could be applied to him,he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy,astrology or cannibalism.-H.L.Mencken
9.Limitations are but boundaries created inside our minds.-Chinese proverb
10.We serve best when we hold dearly in mind the goal and purpose rather than our place in the process.
11.A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.-Miscellaneous proverb
12.I felt like you can write forever,but you have a short time to raise a family.And I think a family is more important than writing.-Ken Kesey
13.Show me somebody who can't tell his friends from his enemies,and I'll show you somebody who's going to end up with no friends.-Jim Lehrer
14.I think I did pretty well,considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of black paper.-Steve Martin
15.Tradition is a guide,and not a jailer.-W.Somerset Maugham
16.The eternal quest of human beings is to shatter their loneliness.-Norman Cousins
17.Don't go breaking your shin on a stool that's not in your way.-Unknown
18.If you have a job without aggravations,then it's not a job.-Malcolm Forbes

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Five more thought-provoking quotes and proverbs

1.Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.-Martin Luther King Jr.
2.The most valuable of all human possessions,next to a superior and disdainful air,is the reputation of being well-to-do.-H.L.Mencken
3.Many people know about camera angles now,but not so many know about sentences.-Joan Didion
4.The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep,his cruelty may at some point be satiated,but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.-C.S.Lewis
5.Voyager,there are no bridges,one builds them as one walks.-Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua

Ten great quotes and proverbs

1.It is impossible to be stupid while listening to Bach.-Ellen Gilchrist
2.When work is a pleasure,life is a joy.When work is a duty,life is slavery.-Maxim Gorky
3.An ant may well destroy a whole dam.-Chinese proverb
4.Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.-The Dalai Lama
5.Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.-Herman Hesse
6.The more intelligence one has,the more people one finds original.Commonplace people see no difference between men.-Blaise Pascal
7.The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves that is not getting through to the outside world.-Fay Weldon
8.Your fingers can't all be of the same length.-Chinese proverb
9.Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.You don't have to have a college degree to serve.You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.You only need a heart full of grace.-Martin Luther King Jr.
10.The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours.It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.-H.L.Mencken

15 great quotes and proverbs for a Monday afternoon

1.Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.-Leigh Hunt
2.Do not hope to reach a destination without leaving the shore.-Chinese proverb
3.Every path has its puddle.-English proverb
4.We must realize that we can no longer throw our wastes away because there is no 'away.'-William Cahill
5.I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no sustitute for paying attention.-Diane Sawyer
6.Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.-Moorish proverb
7.I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.-Diane Sawyer
8.If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents,he would promise them missionaries for dinner.-Chinese proverb
9.Some politicians can be bought,but most can only be rented.-Canadian journalist and GLOBE AND MAIL columnist Richard Needham
10.Some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the (political) machinery will not work.-Woodrow Wilson,US president.
11.If you get up early,work late and pay your taxes,you will get ahead-if you strike oil.-J.Paul Getty(1892-1976)
12.My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician.And to tell the truth,there's hardly any difference.-Harry S.Truman
13.Making the decision to have a child is momentous.It is to decide forever to have your heart to walking around outside your body.-Elizabeth Stone
14.A great general need not blow his own trumpet.-Chinese proverb
15.Everyone pushes a falling fence.-Chinese proverb

A cavalcade of quotes and proverbs

1.Virtue travels uphill,vice travels downhill.-Chinese proverb
2.The enemy of my enemy is my friend.-Arab proverb
3.If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self,egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.-Arnold Bennett
4.Enjoy yourself.It's later than you think.-Chinese proverb
5.Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.-Gretta Brooker Palmer
6.Disease can be cured;fate is incurable.-Chinese proverb
7.Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating,but it ain't so,it's the sickening grammar they use.-Mark Twain
8.I don't know the best things until I write.-Leslie Marmon Silko
9.Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness.If he listens to it and acts on it,he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.-Pablo Casals
10.It doesn't matter who my father was;it matters who I remember he was.-Anne Sexton
11.Eating and scratching want but a beginning.-Romanian proverb
12.In nothing do men more nearly approach the Gods than by doing good to their fellow man.-Cicero
13.One courts misfortune by flaunting wealth.-Chinese proverb
14.Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls.-Philippine proverb

Ten great quotes and proverbs for Monday

1.People take shorter honeymoons nowadays,but they take them more often.-Sally Poplin
2.The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.-Justice William O.Douglas
3.Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.-Arab proverb
4.In my sex fantasy,nobody ever loves me for my mind.-Nora Ephron
5.I am only one,but still I am one.I cannot do everything,but still I can do something.And because I cannot do everything,I will not refuse to do the something I can do.-Edward Everett Hale
6.No matter what the subject,the subject is always love.-Ingrid Bengis
7.Men do more things through habit than through reason.-Anon
8 Music cheers the heart and warms the disposition.-Chinese proverb
9.Do not protect yourself by a fence,but rather by your friends.-Czech proverb
10.Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.-Romanian proverb

Three good quotes

1.The country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when a baby gets hold of a hammer.-Will Rogers
2.Usually we trust that nature has a master plan.But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?-Bill Vaughan
3.Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us.Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.-Henri-Frederic Amiel

A hail of quotes and proverbs

1.Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.-Edgar Watson Howe
2.The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.-Danish proverb
3.Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.-Eleanor Roosevelt
4.What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in writing another.-Eudora Welty
5.Rules are not necessarily sacred;principles are.-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6.Writing for me is a ragged and restless activity with scattered fragments to be pieced together like a patchwork quilt.-Elizabeth Jolley
7.Men are not hanged for stealing horses,but that horses may not be stolen.-Lord Halifax
8.The man who listens to Reason is lost:Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.-G.B.Shaw
9.Never holiday in a country where they still point at planes-William Rushton
10.The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me.They have,taking with one another,no special talent for the business of government;they have only a talent for getting and holding office.-H.L.Mencken
11.What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.-Pablo Picasso
12.An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.--John Gay

12 interesting quotes and proverbs for the new year

1.Shed no tears until seeing the coffin.-Chinese proverb
2.Deviate an inch,lose a thousand miles.-Chinese proverb
3.The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.-Latin proverb
4.With every deed you are sowing a seed,though the harvest you may not see.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5.Without rice even the cleverst housewife cannot cook.-Chinese proverb
6.If everything seems under control,you're just not going fast enough.-Mario Andretti
7.The longer the explanation,the bigger the lie.-Chinese proverb
8.Intelligence is endowed,but wisdom is learned.-Chinese proverb
9.Nobody has measured,even poets,how much the heart can hold.-Zelda Fitzgerald
10.The promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.-Havelock Ellis
11.Be as radical as reality.-Vladimir Lenin
12.Love is so short,and forgetting is so long.-Pablo Neruda

Ten bright quotes and proverbs

1.Love people.Use things.Not vice-versa.-Kelly Rothaus
2.A happy person is not one trapped by fame and fortune.-Chinese proverb
3.The crow that mimics a cormorant is soon drowned.-Japanese proverb
4.Between saying and doing,many a pair of shoes is worn out.-Italian proverb
5.Wealth and obscurity cannot equal poverty and fame.-Chinese proverb
6.This suspense is terrible.I hope it will last.-Oscar Wilde
7.No one thinks of the winter when the grass is green.-Rudyard Kipling
8.Anger as soon as fed is dead
'Tis starving makes it fat.-Emily Dickinson
9.People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
10.Bed is the poor man's opera.-Italian proverb