Quote on neighbours

The problem with neighbours is that they live next door.-Jon Canter in THE GUARDIAN

Quote by Thomas Dekker

A mask of gold hides all deformities.-Thomas Dekker

A couple of great quotes

1.If little else,the brain is an educational toy.-Tom Robbins
2.No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.Destiny is made known silently.-Agnes De Mille

Quote on democracy

Our system is 'demoncratic',not democratic.-Richard Therien Godon(1952-2008),in 1993.

Quote by Jim Hightower

The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek.-Jim Hightower(Visit www.jimhightower.com)

Great quote by Hermann Hesse

It is possible to be a great scoundrel without ever doing anything that is forbidden.-Hermann Hesse

Quote by Tom Brokaw

It's easy to make a buck.It's a lot tougher to make a difference.-Tom Brokaw(b.1940),U.S.news anchor

Quote by Robert Brault

Today I bent the truth to be kind,and I have no regret,for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.-Robert Brault

Quote on exercise

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.-Phyllis Diller(b.1917),U.S.actress and comedian

Quote on love

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.-Miguel Deunamino

Quote on jogging

The first time I see a jogger smiling,I'll consider it.-Joan Rivers(b.1933),U.S.comedian and actress

Quote by George Herbert

Good and quickly seldom meet.-George Herbert

Quote by Warren Buffett

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.-Warren Buffett

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Quote by Barbara Hall

The path to our destination is not always a straight one.We go down the wrong road,we get lost,we turn back.Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on.Maybe what matters is that we embark.-Barbara Hall

Great quote by Gaylord Nelson

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.-Gaylord Nelson

Great quote by Jane Austen

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy,---it is disposition alone.Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other,and seven days are more than enough for others.-Jane Austen

Great quote by Philip G.Hamerton

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?-Philip G.Hamerton,''The Intellectual Life.''

Quote by Cicero

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.-Cicero

Quote by chef Julia Child that I disagree with

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.-Chef Julia Child.(Unfortunately Julia Child was contemptuous of vegetarianism,like many other well-known chefs.Pity because she was a talented woman otherwise).

Great quote on the seasons

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.-Horace Friess

Great quote on work

If hard work were such a wonderful thing surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.-Lane Kirkland (1922-1999),U.S.labour leader

1.Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.-Alfred Hitchcock
2.If you want a happy ending,that depends ,of course,on where you stop your story.-Orson Welles
3.I like living.I have sometimes been wildly,despairingly ,accurately miserable ,racked with sorrow,but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.-Agatha Christie

Interesting quote on suburbs

My God,the suburbs!They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory,and we thought of them as a loss of privacy,a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the placename appeared in The New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a sawgun.-John Cheever,ESQUIRE,July 1960.

Good quote on idealism

It's wrong to have an ideal view of the world.That's where the mischief starts.That's where everything starts unravelling.-V.s.Naipaul,MAGIC SEEDS

A triplet of interesting quotes

1.Most people are not really free.They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.-V.s.Naipaul,winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature
2.People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.-Leo Burke(b.1934),U.S.baseball player
3.The world is full of beauty,as other worlds above,and if we did our duty,it might be as full of love.-Gerald Massey

Some interesting quotes

1.We are all Mimic Men.-V.S.Naipaul
2.The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.-V.S.Naipaul,IN A FREE STATE
3.I will say I am the sum of my books.-V.S.Naipaul
4.One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.-V.S.Naipaul

Great quote on stress

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.-Richard Carlson(1961-2006),U.S.author and motivational talker

Great quote by Bertrand Russell

Man,who are unhappy,like men who have slept badly,are always proud of the fact.-Bertrand Russell(1872-1970),English philosopher

Elbows

There are very few people who can lick their own elbows.Have you noticed this?Have you tried licking your elbows?

Fact on bedbugs

Bedbugs can live for up to 18 months without eating.I do not know whether I envy them or outright,outright hate them.

Great quote by Cicero

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?-Cicero

Quote on gambling

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win.-Charles Spurgeon

Quote on life

One day your life will flash before your eyes.Make sure it's worth watching.-Unknown

Great quote on driving

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery--drive fast and join the scenery.-Doug Horton

Great quote on honesty

Honesty:The best of all the lost arts.-Mark Twain

Great quote by Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear when you can look into your own heart.Who looks outside dreams;who looks inside,awakes.-Carl Gustav Jung

Albanian proverb

Fire,water and government know nothing of mercy.-Albanian proverb

Great quote by Ian Anderson

Pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.-Ian Anderson

Great quote on reform

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.-Mark Twain

Great quote on art

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.-Twyla Tharp