Five great quotes or proverbs

1.If you speak the truth,keep a foot in the stirrup.-Turkish proverb
2.It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman,and a foolish man who stands firm is
a catastrophe.-Hyman G.Rickover
3.The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.-Chinese proverb
4.Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person,having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.-George EliotI
5.If you bow at all,bow low.-Chinese proverb

17 more famous people who were only children

16 more famous people who were only children
1.Burt Bacharach,U.S.songwriter (b.1929)
2.U.S.poet Elizabeth Bishop (b.1911)
3.American concert pianist Van Cliburn(b.1934)
4.Robert De Niro(b.1945)
5.Clark Gable (1901-1960)
6.John Kenneth Galbraith,US economist(1908-2006)
7.William Randoplh Hearst(1863-1951)
8.Vivien Leigh(1913-1967),English actress
9.James Michener(1907-1997)
10.Rex Reed(b.1939),American film critic and journalist
11.Dick Cavett,American talkshow host(b.1936)
12.Jean Paul Sartre,French philosopher
13.Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn(b.1918)
14.Roger Staubach(b.1942),US quarterback
15.Robert Louis Stevenson(1850-1894)
16.Poet Paul Verlaine(1844-1896)
17.Emile Zola(1840-1902)

15 great quotes and proverbs

1.Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and look up at the stars.-Henry Van Dyke
2.Men trip not on mountains;they trip on molehills.-Chinese proverb
3.I know at last what distinguishes man from animals:financial worries.-Romain Rolland
4.Think of everything you write as material you can use later.Don't be afraid to cut just because you love something.-Amy Hempel
5.There's no point putting whipped cream on manure.-John Madden
6.No guts,no glory,no brain,same story.
7.Dishonest people believe in words rather than reality.-Hugh Prather
8.The road to hell is paved with adverbs.-Stephen King
9.Science fiction is the jazz of literature.-David Brin
10.Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.-Diane Ackerman
11.It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.-Gertrude Stein
12.A Journalist is a machine that converts coffee into copy.-Michael Ryan Elgan
13.Writers get to treat their mental illnesses every day.-Kurt Vonnegut
14.You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.-Line from the Bob Dylan song'Like a Rolling Stone'(1965)
15.Keeping your clothes well- pressed will keep you from looking hard-pressed.-Coleman Cox

Famous only children

According to the website www.onlychild.com,these are famous only children.:
The list:
1.Comedian Robin Williams
2.Natalie Portman
3.Rudy Giuliani
4.Tipper Gore
5.Lillian Hellman
6.Kareem-Abdul Jabbar
7.US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8.Treasurer Alan Greenspan
9.Actor Cary Grant(1904-1986)
10.Frank Sinatra
11.Ada Byron
12.Cole Porter.

In addition to these 12 people,these two people were also only children
1.Actor William Powell(1892-1984)
2.Silent film actress Elsie Ferguson(1883-1961)

Great website for vegetarian products

A great website for vegetarian products is www.veggiepatch.com. Their products are available in many Montreal supermarkets.The company sells delicious broccoli nuggets,spinach nuggets,etc etc.Products are savory as well as nutritious.

5 great quotes and proverbs

1.The lost hour never returns.-Ovid
2.Fundamentally,all writing is about the same thing,it's about dying,about the brief flicker of time we have here and the frustration that it creates.-Mordecai Richler
3.A man looking for oblivion should be allowed to have it.-Clive James
4.Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long night,but the flash that means every thing.-Henri Poincare
5.He who is not impatient is not in love.-Italian proverb

Ten great quotes and proverbs

1.A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.-James Dickey
2.Thoughts fly and words go on foot.Therein lies all the drama of a writer.-Julien Green
3.He who knows nothing doubts nothing.-Italian proverb
4.A horse cannot gain weight if not fed with extra fodder during the night;a man cannot become wealthy without earnings apart from his regular salaries.-Chinese proverb
5.Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.-Derek Walcott.
6.A major reason intellectuals tend to move toward collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one:if there's something wrong,pass
a law.-Milton Freedman
7.Caress the detail,the divine detail.-Vladimir Nabokov
8.A writer is working when he is staring out of the window.-Burton Rascoe
9.Use the right word and not its second cousin.-Mark Twain
10.Never trust the artist.Trust the tale.-D.H.Lawrence

Ten great quotes and proverbs

1.Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.-Logan Pearsall Smith
2.Marriage isn't a word--it's a sentence.-King Vidor,caption from his silent film,THE CROWD,1926.
3.We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.Action always generates inspiration.Inspiration seldom generates action.-Frank Tibolt
4.It's clear that a high IQ alone probably won't get you very far in life---unless you find a job taking intelligence tests.-Steve Sampson
5.It is lack of confidence more than anything else that kills civilization.-Sir Kenneth Clark
6.The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument,not a suppression of ideas.-Carl Sagan
7.There are three ingredients to the good life:learning,earning,and yearning.-Christopher Morley.
8.Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge:fitter to bruise than polish.-Poet Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)
9.Gray hair is God's graffiti.-Bill Cosby
10.There is only one cure for gray hair.It was invented by a Frenchman.It is called the guillotine.-P.G.Wodehouse

Seven great quotes or proverbs

1.Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.-Albert Einstein
2.The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,in order to write;a man will turn over half a library to make a book.-Samuel Johnson
3.He fishes well who uses a golden hook.-Latin proverb
4.You can stroke people with words.-F.Scott Fitzgerald in THE CRACK-UP.
5.The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.-Logan Pearsall Smith,AFTERTHOUGHTS
6.He that finds fault wants to buy.-German proverb
7.The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.-Wendell Phillips

Eight inspiring quotes or proverbs

1.Throw your dreams into space like a kite,and you do not know what it will bring back,a new life,a new friend,a new love,or a new country.-Anais Nin(1903-1977)
2.Happiness is like a sunbeam which the least shadow intercepts,while adversity is often as the rain of spring.-Chinese proverb
3.A person who seeks help for a friend,while needy himself,will be answered first.-The Talmud
4.Always bear in mind that every setback in life is a setup for a comeback.-Pat Andrews,breast cancer survivor
5.The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face.-Poet Charles Reznikoff(1894-1976)
6.We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.-Novelist Marcel Proust(1971-1922)
7.Some people change when they see the light,others when they feel the heat.-Caroline Schoeder
8.Intelligence complicates.Wisdom simplifies.-Mason Cooley

Ten fresh quotes and proverbs for a cold Monday

1.God loved the birds and invented trees.Man loved the birds and invented cages.-Jacques Deval,writer and director(1895-1972)
2.It's imperative that we-----recognize that condoms no more cause sex than umbrellas cause rain.-Nicholas D.Kristof,in THE NEW YORK TIMES,October 1,2003.
3.Judge each day not by the harvest you reap,but by the seeds you plant.-Robert Louis Stevenson
4.Our business in life is not to succeeed,but to continue to fail in good spirits.-Robert Louis Stevenson
5.If thought corrupts language,language can also corrupt thought.-George Orwell
6.A person who seeks help for a friend,while needy himself,will be answered first.-The Talmud
7.If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles,one would hardly see anybody.-Agatha Christie
8.The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.-Joanna Macy,writer and teacher(b.1929)
9.Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian philosophy.-Theodor Adorno,philosopher and composer (1903-1969)
10.In some circumstances,the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.-Margaret Halsey,novelist (1910-1997).

15 interesting quotes or proverbs

1.We breathe in our first language,and swim in our second.-Adam Gopnik
2.The two best kinds of prayer are''Help me,help me,help me'' and ''Thank you,thank you,thank you.''-Anne Lamott in her book TRAVELLING MERCIES
3.The disease of niceness cripples more lives than alcoholism.-Writer Raymond Chandler
4.Language is the armory of the human mind;and at once contains the trophies of its past,and the weapons of its future conquests.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5.But words are things,
a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought,
produces That which makes thousands,perhaps millions think.-Lord Byron
6.English doesn't borrow from other languages.English follows other languages down dark alleys,knocks them over,and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.-Unknown
7.To know another language is to have a second soul.-Charlemagne
8.Life would be dull without mistakes.-Oscar Wilde
9.Never trust somebody who can't say sorry to a dog.-James Lileks
10.Once you hear the details of a victory,it is hard to distinguish it from defeat.-Jean Paul Sartr,writer and philosopher(1905-1980)
11.I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.-Marshall McLuhan,cultural historian and communications theorist(1911-1980)
12.A truly great book should be read in youth,again in maturity and once more in old age,as a fine building should be seen by morning light,at moon and by moonlight.-Robertson Davies,writer(1913-1995)
13.Promises are like the full moon:if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.-German proverb
14.It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,instead of theories to suit facts.-Arthur Conan Doyle,physician and writer(1859-1930)
15.When audiences come to see us authors lecture,it is largely in the hope that we will be funnier to look at than to read.-Sinclair Lewis

15 great quotes and proverbs

1.Be kind,for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.-PHILO OF ALXEANDRIA
2.Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.-Jorge Luis Borges
4.Many live in the ivory tower called reality;they never venture on the open sea of thought.-Journalist Francois Gautier(b.1950)
5.Have a heart that never hardens,and a temper that never fires,and a touch that never hurts.-Charles Dickens
6.A happy marriage is the union of two forgivers.-Robert Quillen,journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948)
7.You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.-Anne Lamott,writer(b.1954)
8.I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.-Abraham Lincoln
9.A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains.-Dutch proverb
10.Vicious as a tiger can be,she never eats her own cubs.-Chinese proverb
11.Here in America we all have watches,but noone has time.-Unknown
12.Criticism like rain,should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.-Frank A.Clark,writer(b.1911)
13.One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.-E.B.White,writer(1899-1985)
14.A man whom life intoxicates has no need of wine.-Anais Nin
15.A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.-English proverb

25 great quotes and proverbs

1.The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory,but progress.-Joseph Joubert,essayist(1754-1820)
2.Intellectuals solve problems:geniuses prevent them.-Albert Einstein
3.Efficiency is intelligent wisdom.-David Dunham
4.One can pay back the loan of gold,but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.-Malayan proverb
5.It takes a genius to whine appealingly.-F.Scott Fitzgerald
6.Tremble:your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in.-Judith Malina
7.We aim above the mark to hit the mark.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
8.What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.-P.D.James,writer(b.1920)
9.The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away ,for expedients,and by parts.-Edmund Burke,statesman and writer(1729-97)
10.There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.-William F.Buckley Jr
11.Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.-Benjamin Franklin
12.Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.-M.F.K.Fisher
13.We either make ourselves miserable,or we make ourselves strong.The amount of work is the same.-Carlos Castaneda
14.Once you start asking questions,innocence is gone.-Mary Astor
15.It is not good to make sentimental journeys.You see the differences instead of the sameness.-Mary Astor
16.A man needs a little madness or else----he never dares to cut the rope and be free.-Anthony Quinn to Alan Bates in the 1964 film ZORBA
THE GREEK.
17.It is better to burn out than to fade away.
18.A painter paints,a musician plays,a writer writes-but a movie actor waits.-Mary Astor
19.Gossip needs no carriage.-Russian proverb
20.If you want to get across an idea,wrap it up as a person.-Ralph Bunche
21.If you can't return a favor,pass it on.-Louise Brown(1906-96),American dancer and teacher
22.To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.-Thomas Jefferson
23.Writing is like getting married.One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.-Iris Murdoch
24.To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.-Marcel Jouhandeau
25.The faster I write the better my output.If I'm going slow I'm in trouble.It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.-Raymond Chandler