Stimulating Henrik Ibsen quote on animal dissection and animal experimentation

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals;let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.-Playwright Henrik Ibsen

A cascade of quotes and proverbs

1.The future influences the present just as much as the past.-Friedrich Nietzsche
2.When you are poor,neighbors close by will not come;once you become rich,you'll be surprised by visits from relatives afar.-Chinese proverb
3.Home is where the heart is.-Pliny the Elder
4.Kind words can be short and easy to speak,but their echoes are truly endless.-Mother Teresa
5.And ghastly through the drizzling rain
On the bald streets breaks the blank of day.-Tennyson
6.Life is the first gift,love is the second,and understanding the thirst.-Piercy
7.Think before you speak but do not speak all that you think.-Chinese proverb
8.A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.-Abba Eban
9.We had finished our coffee,which was loathsome as in all countries----where the accent of the word for coffee falls on the first syllable.-Primo Levi
10.Dream,diversify-and never miss an angle.-Walt Disney

A stack of interesting quotes

1.Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings ,and making music with them.-Dennis Gabor
2.Poetry,like the moon,does not advertise anything.-William Blissett
3.Poetry is an echo,asking a shadow to dance.-Carl Sandburg
4.Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.-Edmund Burke
5.Peace is costly,but it is worth the expense.-Kenyan proverb
6.A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.-John Le Carre
7.It is never too late to give up your prejudices.-Henry David Thoreau,Economy from WALDEN
8.Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.-Henry Miller
9.I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.-D.H.Lawrence
10.Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.-Jane Wagner
11.I don't have pet peeves,I have whole kennels of irritation.-Whoopi Goldberg
12.Life is an escalator:You can move forward or backward;you cannot remain still.-Patricia Russell McCloud

16 great quotes(mostly on poetry)

1.Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.-Carl Sandburg
2.Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.-Carl Sandburg
3.Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.-Novalis
4.Poetry:the best words in the same order.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5.Poetry is life distilled.-Gwendolyn Brooks
6.Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.-Percy Shelley
7.Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.-Robert Frost
8.Poetry is thoughts that breathe,and words that burn.-Thomas Gray
9.I write poetry in order to live more fully.-Judith Rodriguez
10.Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.-Adrian Mitchell
11.A poem begins with a lump in the throat.-Robert Frost
12.Poetry is truth in Sunday clothes.-Joseph Roux
13.You can't write poetry on the computer.-Quentin Tarantino
14.God is the perfect poet.-Robert Browning
15.Invention----does not consist in creating out of void,but out of chaos.-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A dropping of more quotes and proverbs

1.You lose it if you talk about it.-Ernest Hemmingway
2.Since we cannot get what we like,let us like what we can get.-Spanish proverb
3.If you believe everything you read,better not read.-Chinese proverb
4.It is not the bottle that makes great wine.
5.Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture but they caught it just in time.-Wilson Mizner
6.If a poem can be improved by its author's explanations,it never should have been published.-Archibald MacLeish
7.In matters of style,swim with the current;In matters of principle ,stand like a rock.-Thomas Jefferson
8.One who is a slave to one's senses cannot rein one's will into submission.-Chinese proverb
9.A poet can survive everything but a misprint.-Oscar Wilde

Four great quotes

1.The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.-Abraham Lincoln
2.A danger foreseen is half avoided.-Thomas Fuller,MD
3.The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.-Shana Alexander
4.Civilizations---break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.-Arnold Toynbee

A manna of quotes and proverbs

1.Old age is when you realize that forever is not as long as it used to be.-Joseph Prescott
2.The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.-Jacob Bronowski(1908-74)
3.Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee ,and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.The shortest answer is doing.-English proverb
5.What you see is real;what you hear may not be.-Chinese proverb
6.It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.-Sholem Asch
7.If you want to be listened to,you should put in time listening.-Marge Piercy
8.Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly.-Chinese proverb
9.Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.-George MacDonald

Four great quotes and proverbs

1.Remember to dig the well long before you get thirsty.-Chinese proverb
2.Home is not given,but made.-Anonymous
3.Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.-Rabindranath Tagore
4.The bad end unhappily;the good unluckily.That is what tragedy means.-Tom Stoppard

Two quotes about animal rights

1.Once admit that you have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.-John Galsworthy(1867-1933),British author,playwright
2.I am sometimes asked ''Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about
kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?''I answer :''I am working at the roots.''-George Angell(1823-1909)(Founder of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1868).

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.-Martin Luther King Jr.
2.The superior man can find himself in no situation in which he is not himself.-Chinese proverb
3.Tranquil pleasures last the longest;we are not fitted to bear great joys.-Christian Bovee
4.The shortest distance between two points is under construction.-Noelie Aelito
5.Beliefs are what divide people.Doubt unites them.-Peter Ustinov

A Bale of quotes and proverbs

1.Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.-Sandra Day O'Connor
2.Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.-Jimmy Lyons
3.Delay is the deadliest form of denial.-C.Northcote Parkinson
4.Procastrination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.-Anonymous
5.Do the hard jobs first.The easy jobs will take care of themselves.-Dale Carnegie
6.Although you can take a nation's pulse,you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.-E.B.White
7.Death means a lot of money,honey.Death can really make you look like a star.-Andy Warhol
8.It is the nature of extreme self-lovers,as they will set a house on fire,and it were but to roast their eggs.-Francis Bacon
9.What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts,stamped,inked,imprinted,eternally seen.-Cynthia Ozick

A bundle of quotes and proverbs

1.A year from now you will wish you had started today.-Karen Lamb
2.Scholars are like canaries in a mine.They are on the cutting edge of research,and most sensitive to danger in a society.If you silence them,you're poking out the eyes of society.-U.S.professor Julian Cole.
3.Poetry is like fish:If it's fresh,it's good;if it's stale,it's bad;and if you're not certain ,try it on the cat.-Osbert Sitwell
4.All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.To be natural is to be obvious,and to be obvious is to be inartistic.-Oscar Wilde
5.Better to be deprived of food for three days,than tea for one.-Chinese proverb
6.There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.-Anonymous
7.Revenge is a confession of pain.-Latin proverb
8.Action is the antidote to despair.-Joan Baez

Six great quotes and proverbs

1.If you believe in yourself,so will others.-Graham Greene
2.All you have to do on television is be yourself,provided that is,that you have a self to be.-Clive James
3.A smile will gain you ten more years of life.-Chinese proverb
4.You are younger today than you ever will be again.Make use of it.-Anonymous
5.Education costs money,but then so does ignorance.-Claus Moser
6.Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have formed the habit of making excuses.-George Washington Carver

Nine great quotes or proverbs

1.Satisfied people do not complain.-Chinese proverb
2.Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side.-French proverb
3.It is magnificent to grow old,if one keeps young.-Harry Emerson Fosdick
4.We should treat our minds,that is ourselves,as ingenuous children,whose guardians we are,and be careful of what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.Read not the Times.Read The Eternities.-Henry David Thoreau
5.Life itself is the proper binge.-Julia Child
6.It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music.They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.-Sir Thomas Beecham
7.Prayers go up and blessings come down.-Yiddish proverb
8.Good deeds never leave home,bad ones echo a thousand miles.-Chinese proverb
9.The trouble with parenthood is that by the time you're experienced you're unemployable.-Anonymous

An octet of quotes or proverbs

1.Enjoy the journey,enjoy every moment and quit worrying about winning and losing.-Mel Collins
2.Small men think they are small;great men never know they are great.-Chinese proverb
3.The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.-John Vance Cheney
4.Poetry is fossil language.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,1844
5.Patience is bitter,but the fruit is sweet.-French proverb
6.If you think about it,every experience is worth having.-Henry Ford
7.A great fire may follow a tiny spark.-Chinese proverb
8.What I must do is all that concerns me,not what people think.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some erudite quotes and proverbs

1.It is very easy to forgive others for their mistakes;it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.-Jessamyn West
2.You must give your own story to the world.-Carter G.Woodson
3.Of all the thirty-six alternatives,running away is the best.-Chinese proverb
4.You give but a little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of your heart that you truly give.-Kahlil Gibran
5.The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.-Chinese proverb
6.What is it going to be-reasons or results?-Art Turock
7.The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom;some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
8.No possession can surpass or even equal a good library.-J.A.Lankford
9.A writer lives in awe of words ,for they can be cruel or kind,and they can change their meanings right in front of you.They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.-John Steinbeck
10.Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind,which are delivered from generation to generation,as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.-Joseph Addison

Fun proverbs and quotes

1.To change your life,start immediately ,do it flamboyantly,no exceptions,no excuses.-William James
2.There is a busybody on your staff who devotes a lot of his time to chasing split infinitives.Every good literary craftsman splits his infinitive when the sense demands it.I call for the immediate dismissal of this pedant.It is of no consequence whether he decides to go quickly or to quickly go.The important thing is that he should go at once.-Playwright George Bernard Shaw in a letter to THE LONDON TIMES.

Pithy and not-so-pithy quotes or proverbs

1.You can outdistance that which is running after you,but not what is running inside you.-Chinese proverb
2.Noone is rich enough to do without a neighbor.-Danish proverb
3.Four innate sentiments diŝpose people to a universal moral sense.These are sympathy,fairness,self-control and duty.-James Q Wilson
4.More than kisses,letters mingle souls.-John Donne
5.Apt words have the power to assuage the tumors of a troubled mind.-John Milton
6.A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.-Richard Bach
7.What is the point of eloquence?Those who confront others with a ready tongue are often hated by them.-Chinese proverb
8.Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.-Margaret Drabble