Four great quotes

1.Your best teacher is your last mistake.-Ralph Nader
2.Stories can conquer fear,you know.They can make the heart bigger.-Ben Okri
3.Dreams are,by definition,cursed with short life spans.-Candice Bergen
4.One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.-Doug Larson

Interesting quotes for Friday

1.Prejudice,not being founded on reason,cannot be removed by argument.-Samuel Johnson
2.The amount of noise that one can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to one's mental capacity.-Arthur Schopenhauer
3.A lifetime of happiness!No man alive could bear it.-George Bernard Shaw
4.People say life is the real thing,but I prefer reading.-Logan Pearsall Smith

Three more quotes for Sunday

1.Cats are smarter than dogs.You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.-Jeff Valdez
2.The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.-Edwin Schollsberg
3.Holidays are an expensive trial of strength.The only satisfaction comes from survival.-Jonathan Miller

Four great quotes

1.Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.-Edward De Bono
2.A woman's dress should be like a barbed wire fence;serving its purpose without obstructing the view.-Sophia Loren
3.Deep into that darkness peering,long I stood
there wondering,fearing.-Edgar Allan Poe
4.Honesty may be the best policy,but it's important to remember that apparently,by elimination ,dishonesty is the second best policy.-George Carlin

1.The old have reminiscences of what never happened.-Saki
2.In giving advice,seek to help,not please,your friend.-Solon

Three more great quotes and proverbs

1.A dog owns nothing,yet is seldom dissatisfied.-Irish proverb
2.Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.-Jacob Bronowski
3.Life is like a camel.You can make it do anything except back up.-Marcelene Cox

A trio of great quotes

1.Life engenders life.Energy creates energy.It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.-Sarah Bernhardt
2.Of those who say nothing,few are silent.-Thomas Neill
3.The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.-Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Five great quotes

1.Anger makes you smaller,while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.-Cherie Carter Scott
2.The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.-Ogden Nash
3.Be happy.It's one way of being wise.-Colette
4.There are two kinds of people,those who finish what they start and so on.-Robert Bryne
5.The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.-Sun Tzu

Four great quotes

1.When a dog runs at you,whistle for him.-Hemry David Thoreau
2.After all,one knows one's weak points so well ,that it 's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.-Edith Wharton
3.True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.-Edith Wharton
4.Habit is necessary;it is the habit of having habits,of turning a trail into a rut,that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.-Edith Wharton

Five fine quotes

1.Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.-William Cowper
2.I am not strange,I am just not normal.-Salvador Dali
3.Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.-Edith Wharton(1862-1937),American novelist and short-story writer
4.My little dog-a heartbeat at my feet.-Edith Wharton
5.The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.-Edith Wharton

Two great quotes

1.Good teachers are costly,but bad teachers cost more.-Bob Talbert
2.The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.-Edith Wharton

Three good quotes

1.The future is an opaque mirror.-Jim Bishop
2.The more you try to be interested in other people,the more you find out about yourself.-Thea Astley
3.Teaching kids to count is fine,but teaching them what counts is best.-Bob Talbert

A duo of good quotes

1.Life is about trying without winning.That is why humanity developed the instinct for sport.-Miroslav Holub,Czech poet and immunologist
2.Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.If your ideas are any good,you'll have to ram them down people's throats.-Howard Aiken

A great quote and a great proverb

1.When you have given nothing,ask for nothing.-Albanian proverb
2.Let us not go over the old ground,let us rather prepare for what is to come.-Cicero

Four more good quotes for Sunday

1.Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath,kick off your shoes and dance.-Oprah Winfrey
2.Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.-Isaac Bashevis Singer
3.If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,and all that is left is a compromise.-Robert Fritz
4.Memory feeds imagination.-Amy Tan

Five great quotes

1.It's them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.-George Eliot
2.The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.-Marcel Proust
3.A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ``individuality'' is the key to success.-Robert Orben
4.Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls,your ego goes with it.-Colin Powell
5.Before you embark on a journey of revenge,dig two graves.-Confucius

77th list of 10 French songs you like

1.La Licorne(1968)-Les Coquettes
2.Une Poupée-Pierre Lalonde(This song is a French version of the Herb Alpert song 'THIS GUY'S IN LOVE WITH YOU.')
3.Numéro 1 au hit parade de mon coeur-Norman Knight
4.Hello Mary-Lou-Les Bel-Air
5.Dalida-César et Les Romains
6.Tzeinerlin-Les Compagnons de la chanson
7.L'Amour Est Une Chanson-Jean Nichol
8.J'ai Du Bon Feu(1969)-Marc Gélinas
9.Le Feu de l'Amour(1971)-Karo
10.Un Rayon de Soleil-Enrico Macias

A quartet of good quotes

1.Inside every cynical person there is a disappointed idealist.-George Carlin
2.It is criminal to steal a purse,daring to steal a fortune,a mark of greatness to steal a crown.The
blame diminishes as the guilt increases.-Friedrich Schiller
3.If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.-Edith Wharton
4.A great city is one that handles art and garbage equally well.-Bob Talbert,DETROIT FREE PRESS columnist.

Corrected quote on skyscrapers

The skyscraper is responsible for the congestion and is making the city of today impossible to use.The skyscraper piles the crowd up high,dumps it on the street,stuffs it in again,and the streets are not nearly wide enough.-Frank Lloyd Wright

Great quote on skyscrapers

The skyscraper is responsible for the congestion,and is making the city of today impossible to use.The skyscraper piles up the crowd high,dumps it on the street,stuffs it in again,and the streets are not nearly wide enough.-Frank Lloyd Wright

A couple of great quotes

1.He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.-Charles Péguy,1873-1914.
2.To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.-Aldous Huxley

Four good quotes

1.A different language is a different vision of life.-Federico Fellini
2.Of all animals,man is the only one that is cruel.He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.-Mark Twain
3.There's no educational value in the second kick of a mule.-American saying
4.My loathings are simple:stupidity,oppression,crime,cruelty,soft music.-Vladimir Nabokov

A trio of good quotes

1.I speak the truth ,not so much as I would,but as much as I dare,and I dare a little more as I grow older.-Catherine Drinker Bowen
2.We learn something every day,and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.-Bill Vaughan
3.When we are dreaming alone,it is only a dream.When we are dreaming with others,it is the beginning of reality.-Dom Helder Camara

Three great quotes

1.The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.-Don Marquis
2.It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.-Anonymous
3.No man ever listened himself out of a job.-Calvin Coolidge