Great quotes or proverbs for a Tuesday

1.A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.-Charlotte Bronte
2.If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good,you should run for your life.-Henry David Thoreau
3.Make no little plans;they have no magic to stir men's blood-----Make big plans,aim--high in hope and work.-Daniel H.Burnham
4.I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time.Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.-E.B.White
5.No wind,no waves.-Chinese proverb
6.The anvil fears no blows.-Romanian proverb
7.If you can find a path with no obstacles,it probably doesn't lead anywhere.-Frank A.Clark
8.There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings,but none when they are under the influence of imagination.-Edmund Burke
9.Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.-Cesare Pavese
10.In large states,public education will always be mediocre,for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.-Friedrich Nietzsche
11.An ass is but an ass,though laden with gold.-Romanian proverb

A hail of nice quotes

1.True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar;it is comes to see that an edifice which
produces beggars needs restructuring.-King
2.Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak just because a baby can't chew it.-Mark Twain
3.Man is a credulous animal and must believe something;in the absence of good grounds for belief,he will be satisfied with bad ones.-Bertrand Russell
4.I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.-Lillian Hellman
5.What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.-Henry Ford
6.The person who has the compassion enjoys the freedom of the seas.-Terry Young
7.We grow gray in our spirit before we grow gray in our hair.-Charles Lamb
8.One servant is worth a thousand gadgets.-J.A.Schumpeter
9.Anybody seen in a bus over the age of 30 has been a failure in life.-Loelia,Duchess of Westminster,PRINCE ALBERT DAILY HERALD,Quote of the day,May 2,2000.
10.Resistance is a way of life,an intellectual and emotional reaction to anything which threatens human liberty.-Lucie Aubrac(1912-2007)
11.Mistakes are a fact of life.It is the response to error that counts.-Nikki Giovanni
12.Start writing a new chapter ,for if you live by the book you'll never make history.-Ben Sobel
13.There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure,but I don't know many of them.-Sylvia Plath
14.If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life,choose a sense of humour.-Jennifer Jones
15.Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks ,and not by those already famous and powerful.-Woodrow Wilson
16.One coin in the moneybox makes more noise than when it is full.-Arab proverb

A Blizzard of quotes and proverbs

1.An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by sheep.-Arab proverb
2.If you understand everything,you must be misunderstood.-Chinese proverb
3.Anyone can buy a good house,but good neighbors are priceless.-Chinese proverb
4.The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.-Swedish proverb
5.Fashion is made to be unconscionable.-Coco Chanel
6.Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful,or believe to be beautiful.-William Morris
7.Advice is least heeded when most needed.-English proverb

Two interesting quotes

1.Usually,terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all,but just terrible things.-Russell Baker
2.I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat.There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.-John Mortimer

10 fine quotes or proverbs for Sunday

1.Time flies.It's up to you to be the navigator.-Robert Orben
2.You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.-Nietzsche
3.Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.-Scott Adams
4.Never iron a four-leaf clover because you don't want to press your luck.-Anonymous
5.Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.-Ayn Rand
6.We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.-Helen Keller
7.Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.-Kurt Cobain,Quote of the day,PRINCE ALBERT DAIRY HERALD,JANUARY 11,2007.
8.The most important thing man can know is that,as he approaches his own door,someone on the other side is listening for the sound of his footsteps.-Clark Gable
9.It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.-Eleanor Roosevelt
10.No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.-Jamaican proverb

4 worthy quotes or proverbs

1.I have found that people are usually much more moved by economics than by morals.-Norah Phillips(1910-1992)
2.I have a great diet.You're allowed to eat anything you want ,but you must eat it with naked fat people.-Ed Bluestone
3.Personality can open doors,but only character can keep them open.-Elmer G.Letterman
4.I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world.I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.-Ellen Goodman

Nine great quotes and proverbs for Friday

1.The less people know about how sausages and laws are made,the better they'll sleep at night.-Otto Von Bismarck
2.I like nonsense;it wakes up the brain cells.Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.Which is what I do.And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.-Dr.Seuss
3.Once you feel you know something,you're either repetitive or boring or both.-Clint Eastwood
4.The net of the sleeper catches fish.-Greek proverb
5.You can stay young as long as you learn.-Emily Dickinson
6.I'll not listen to reason-----Reason always means what someone else has got to say.-Elizabeth Gaskell,1810-65
7.We make out of the quarrel with others,rhetoric,but of the quarrel with ourselves,poetry.-W.B.Yeats
8.To teach is to learn.-Chinese proverb
9.Let the world know you as you are,not as you think you should be.-Fannie Brice

Addition of eight great quotes

1.Living had got to be such ahabit with him that he couldn't conceive of any other condition.-Flannery O' Connor
2.You're only as good as your last haircut.-Fran Lebowitz
3.You can't deny laughter;when it comes,it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.-Stephen King from HEARTS IN ATLANTIS.
4.The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
5.Television knows no night.It is perpetual day.TV embodies our fear of the dark,of night,of the other side of things.-Jean Baudrillard
6.Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.-Norman R.Augustine
7.Too many people quit looking for work when they find a job.-Anonymous
8.If there is a sin against life,it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.-Albert Camus

13 interesting quotes or proverbs

1.There is only one happiness in this life,to love and to be loved.-George Sand
2.A beautiful flower is incomplete without its leaves.-Chinese proverb
3.Measure a thousand times and cut once.-Turkish proverb
4.Don't tell me how talented you are.Tell me how hard you work.-Arthur Rubenstein
5.The worst cynicism:a belief in luck.-Joyce Carol Oates
6.Man is condemned to be free.Condemned because he did not create himself,yet is nevertheless at liberty,and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.-Jean Paul Sartre
7.Love is the ability to merge as a part of all things.-Taoism
8.Nature,time and patience are the three great physicians.-Chinese proverb
9.The lips of wisdom are closed,except to the ears of understanding.-The Kybalion
10.Never put both your feet in your mouth at the same time,because then you won't have a leg to stand on.-found on the Internet
11.Sour,sweet,bitter,pungent,all must be tasted.-Chinese proverb
12.What first appears as a calamity may later bring good fortune.-Chinese proverb
13.Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires,
Shall the blind horse sing sweeter?-Dylan Thomas

A Shower of 12 great quotes or proverbs

1.When a finger points at the moon,the imbecile looks at the finger.-Chinese proverb
2.Many men know how to flatter,few men know how to praise.-Greek proverb
3.Some goals are so worthy,it's glorious even to fail.-Anon
4.Never give in.Never give in.Never give in.-Winston Churchill
5.Clouds are so beautiful that I can bite my toes.-Matthew Howse
6.Oh hearts!Nobody gets through life without a broken heart.The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.-Robertson Davies,WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE
7.It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.-Connie Willis,TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG
8.A great deal of intelligence may be invested in ignorance if the need for illusion is deep.-Saul Bellow
9.I've just fallen on some bad luck and landed jelly side down.-Barbara Kingsolver,PIGS IN HEAVEN
10.Mistakes are expensive.Mistakes are good,because we can learn from them.I must be a slow
learner because I repeat most of mine.-Linda Greenlaw,THE LOBSTER CHRONICLES
11.Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.-Saki
12.All your life you live so close to the truth,it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye,and when something nudges it into view it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.-Tom Stoppard,ROSENCRATZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD.

11 great quotes or proverbs

1.The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight,when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.-Persian proverb
2.Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.-Swedish proverb
3.A good fortune may forebode a bad luck,which in turn disguise a good fortune.-Chinese proverb
4.The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.-William Boyd,quoted in THE SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON
5.After all,when you come right down to it,how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?-Russell Hoban
6.Good manners are a part of good morals;and it is as much our duty as our interest to practice both.-John Hunter
7.Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis.-Ernest Weekley,British philologist,THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,1929.
8.Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.-Henry David Thoreau
9.One forgets words as one forgets names.One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.-Evelyn Waugh,English novelist,THE DIARIES OF EVELYN WAUGH
10.Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity--but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.-Earl Warren
11.Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.-Chinese proverb

10 great quotes and proverbs

1.When the state intervenes to ensure the indoctrination of some doctrine,it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.-Bertrand Russell
2.One who minds the feelings of others is no fool.-Chinese proverb
3.Be not Bumptious!-Stan Buchanan
4.It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock,not to skin it.-Latin proverb
5.The journey is the reward.-Tao proverb
6.People,like nails,lose their effectiveness when they lose their direction and start to bend.-Walter Savage Landor
7.Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.-Jacquelyn Mitchard,THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
8.English is not a killer language,but the greatest language of them all-because it welcomes new words with all the hospitality of the bouncer in a cheap brothel.-Ruaridh Nicoll,Scottish novelist,THE OBSERVER,February 25,2007
9.Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.-Pablo Picasso
10.You can create a good impression on yourself by being right-----but for creating a good impression on others there is nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.-Michael Frayn

A very humorous letter from THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Saving the best for last.
Re Britney's Baldness:A cry for Help?(Review,Feb 20):Britney Spears and her shaved head a cry for help?Not at all.More likely a decorating decision--this is simply Britney trying to get the curtains to match the carpet.-Marc Dore,Montreal,Letter to Editor,THE GLOBE AND MAIL,February 21,2007

Ten great quotes or proverbs

1.It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting.-Chinese proverb
2.With money you are a dragon;with no money,a worm.-Chinese proverb
3.Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to,while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.-Gustave Flaubert
4.I strongly wish for what I faintly hope.-John Dryden
5.Authority intoxicates.And makes mere sots of magistrates;the fumes of it invade the brain and make men giddy,proud and vain.-Samuel Butler
6.If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery,she'd still be standing.-Mary Frances Berry(b.1938)
7.I never hurt anybody but myself,and that's nobody's business but my own.-Singer Billie Holiday
8.It is a cart if it travels well,else it is but timber.-Hindu proverb
9.If ye love wealth better than liberty,the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,go home from us in peace.-Samuel Adams
10.All truth passes through three stages.First,it is ridiculed.Second,it is violently opposed.Third,it is accepted as being self-evident.-German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer(1788-1860)