Friday, June 29, 2007

Fresh trio of quotes or proverbs for Friday

1.Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.-Italian proverb
2.If you aren't fired with enthusiasm,you will be fired with enthusiasm.-Vince Lombardi
3.Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back;it simply means that you are two steps ahead.

A blizzard of quotes and proverbs

1.A true friend is someone who likes you despite his achievements.-Arnold Bennett
2.It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love,drunk or running for office.-Shirley MacLaine
3.Avoid the evil,and it will avoid thee.-Gaelic proverb
4.Life can never give security,it can only promise opportunity.-Chinese proverb
5.Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.-Richard Bach,from ILLUSIONS.
6.The difference between good teachers and great teachers:good teachers make the best of a pupil's means;great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.-Maria Callas
7.So be sure when you step,Step with care and great tact.And remember Life's a Great Balancing Act.-Dr.Seuss
8.The beginning is the half of every action.-Greek proverb
9.There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.You seek problems because you need their gifts.-Richard Bach,from ILLUSIONS
10.To extend your life by a year,take one less bite each meal.-Chinese proverb
11.Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours.-Richard Bach,from ILLUSIONS

Monday, June 25, 2007

Four fine quotes or proverbs

1.Ask about your neighbors,then buy the house.-Jewish proverb
2.You don't stop laughing because you grow old;you grow old because you stop laughing.-Michael Pritchard
3.Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice,more drunkards than thirst,and perhaps as many suicides as despair.-C.C.Colton(1780-1832)
4.Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.Being true to anyone else or anything else is-----impossible.-Richard Bach,from ILLUSIONS.

Ten great quotes and proverbs for Monday

1.An iron rod bends while it is hot.-Greek proverb
2.It is not knowing that is difficult,but the doing.-Chinese proverb
3.You don't stop laughing because you grow old;you grow old because they stop laughing.-Michael Pritchard
4.An open enemy is better than a false friend.-Greek proverb
5.Love is the emblem of eternity;it confounds all notion of time.-Anna Louise de Sta'l
6.There are times,aren't there,when plants shoot but do not flower,and when they flower but do not produce fruit -Chinese proverb
7.Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile,initially scared me to death.-Betty Bender
8.When the only tool you own is a hammer,every problem begins to resemble a nail.-Abraham Maslow
9.After the game,the king and the pawn go into the same box.-Italian proverb
10.Ask about your neighbourrs,then buy the house.-Jewish proverb

Friday, June 22, 2007

A scoop of quotes and proverbs

1.All temptations are found either in hope or fear.-English proverb
2.Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.-Jewish proverb
3.Never squat with your spurs on.-Texas proverb
4.My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.Unless there are three other people.-Orson Welles

A handful of quotes and proverbs

1.The act of being deliberately ridiculous is the whole heart of creative excitement.-Geralyn Curtis
2.A life without love is like a year without summer.-Swedish proverb
3.I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.-Booker T.Washington
4.Husbands are like fires.They go out when unattended.-Zsa Zsa Gabor

Another list of famous only children

The following is another list of famous only children.
1.Sarah Michelle Gellar
2.Laura Bush
3.Natalie Portman
4.Freddie Prinze Jr.
5.Charlize Theron
6.Oprah Winfrey
7.Rudy Giuliani
8.Tiger Woods
9.Alicia Keyes,singer

Five great quotes or proverbs

1.Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.-T.S.Eliot
2.He painted a tiger,but it turned out a dog.-Chinese proverb
3.Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.-Rabbi Harold Kushner
4.Do not rely completely on any other human being ,however dear.We meet all life's greatest tests alone.-Agnes Campbell Mcphail
5.An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.-Danish proverb

A bundle of quotes and proverbs

1.An jonest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.-Danish proverb
2.Age does not protect you from love.But love,to some extent,protects you from age.-Jeanne Moreau
3.What is good for the hive is good for the bee.-Chinese proverb
4.Mock not the fallen,for slippery is the road ahead of you.-Russian proverb
5.Men will not be content to manufacture life:they will want to improve on it.-J.D.Bernal in THE WORLD,THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL(1929)
6.Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.-George Washington Carver
7.Money,like a queen,gives rank and beauty.-Latin proverb
8.The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.-Samuel Smiles
9.Let your hook be always cast;in the pool where you least expect it,there will be a fish.-Ovid

Thursday, June 21, 2007

A consignment of fresh quotes and proverbs

1.All temptations are found either in hope or fear.-English proverb
2.Life is a dream walking,death is going home.-Chinese proverb
3.The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous,the sensible man hardly anything.-Goethe(1749-1832)
4.Sex is what you can get.For some people,most people,it's the most important thing they can get without being born rich or smart or stealing.-Don DeLillo
5.Peace only comes when reason rules.-Chinese proverb
6.Follow your bliss,and doors will open where there were no doors before.-Joseph Campbell
7.Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all the time.-Anita Loos in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
8.All roads lead to Rome.-Roman proverb
9.Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work,so most people don't recognize them.-Anne Landers
10.I detest life -insurance agents;they always argue that I shall some day die,which is not so.-Stephen Leacock(1869-1944)
11.No one can be caught in places he does not visit.-Danish proverb

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

A few quotes and proverbs for a hot day

1.The innkeeper loves a drunkard,but not for a son-in-law.-Jewish proverb
2.Man is a blind,witless,anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.-Ian McHarg
3.Planning to write is not writing.Outlining a book is not writing.Researching is not writing.Talking to people about what you're doing,none of that is writing.Writing is writing.-E.L.Doctorow
4.The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we're free to do than in what we are not free to do.It is the freedom to refrain,withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible.-Eric Hoffer

A pack of quotes or proverbs

1.I want much more material;I am tired of my little stories like birds bred in cages.-Katherine
Mansfield
2.A man who chases two rabbits catches none.-Romanian proverb
3.Life isn't a matter of milestones,but of moments.-Rose Kennedy
4.The tragedy of old age is not that one is old,but that one is young.-Oscar Wilde
5.Curiosity may have killed the cat,but I'll bet she had a really interesting life until then.-Anonymous
6.Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.-Chinese proverb
7.It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,and impossible to find it elsewhere.-Agnes Repplier
8.Make happy those who are near,and those who are far will come.-Chinese proverb

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Three great quotes

1.Love your neighbour,but don't tear down your fence.-German proverb
2.My doctors told me I would never walk again.My mother told me I would.I believed my mother.-Wilma Rudolph,3 time Olympic gold medal runner and polio victim
3.You can't expect both ends of a sugarcane are as sweet.-Chinese proverb

Two good quotes for Sunday

1.Women prefer to talk in two's,while men prefer to talk in three's.-G.K.Chesterton
2.Absence does not make the heart grow fonder.To the contrary,it hardens the heart,makes it shrivel and crack,until there is nothing left but a small efficient pump.-Cameron Stracher in his 2007 book ,DINNER WITH DAD.

Friday, June 08, 2007

A tsunami of quotes and proverbs

1.Look for the good,not the evil,in the conduct of members of the family.-Jewish proverb
2.If to talk to yourself when alone is folly,it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.-Gracian,THE ART OF WORLDLY WISDOM,1647.
3.A rich leaven of so-called useless information may create the very ferment that triggers a creative breakthrough..-Erwin Di Cyan
4.More men become good through practice than by nature.-Democritus of Abdera
5.Live your own life,for you will die your own death.-Latin proverb
6.Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.-Helen Keller
7.We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do without.-Immanuel Kant
8.Live with wolves,and you learn how to howl.-Spanish proverb
9.Vanity is other people's pride.-Sacha Guitry
10.We don't see things as they are,we see them as we are.-Anais Nin
11.Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.-Native American proverb
12.You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when.You can only decide how you're going to live.-Joan Baez
13.Review past lessons to discover anew.-Chinese proverb
14.Solitude is fine,but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.-Honore de Balzac
15.My source of creative inspiration is following the intuitions I had as a child,and those were based on the wonder of creation.-Meinrad Craighead
16.Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind.But great actions speak to all mankind.-Emily P.Bissell
17.Suspicion will chase the wind and clutch at shadows.-Chinese proverb
18.It is no time to go to the doctor when the patient is dead.-Irish proverb
19.I'm not afraid of work---I can even sleep beside it.
20.A kiss can be a comma,a question mark or an exclamation point.That's the basic spelling that every woman should know.-Jeanne Bourgeois
21.Always be a first-rate version of yourself,instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.-Judy Garland
22.It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead the rest of your life.-Irish proverb
23.The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.-Harriet Beecher Stowe
24.The nice things about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.-Andrew Tanenbaum

Friday, June 01, 2007

A trio of quotes and proverbs

1.It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief.-Japanese proverb
2.Your generation does too much sharing.To share grief is to double grief,not halve it.-Faye Weldon,IN A GOOD SOUND MARRIAGE (1991)
3.Count not what is lost but what is left.-Chinese proverb