Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to put solar panels on The White House.

Great quote about thorns

Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns.I am thankful that thorns have roses.-Alphonse Kar(1808-90),French critic and novelist.

Great quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.(1841-1935),American jurist.

Great quote by Jane Brody

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure.-Jane Brody

Great quote by David Baldacci

When a poor man gives something,that is a sacrifice indeed.When a rich man gives something,it hardly rises to the same level.-David Baldacci

Quote by David Baldacci

Assumptions are dangerous things.I like facts a lot better.-David Baldacci,THE WINNER

Quote by André Gide

I call 'journalism' everything that will be less interesting tomorrow.-André Gide(1869-1951),French author and Nobel Laureate

Quote by Johnny Carson

The only thing money gives you is freedom of not worrying about money.-Johnny Carson

Great quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Win as if you were used to it,lose it as if you enjoyed it for a change.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote by Stephen Mallarme

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.-Stephen Mallarme

Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate,while he who loves finds the gate open.-Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore

Two good quotes

1.Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.-Samuel Butler 2.Half of all marriages end in divorce--and then there are the really unhappy ones.-Joan Rivers(1933-),U.S.comedian

Great quote on optimists

An optimist stays up to see the new year in.A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.-Bill Vaughn

Great quote by Mason Cooley

Compassion brings us to a stop,and for a moment we rise above ourselves.-Mason Cooley

Great quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated,if he were in their place?-Thomas Henry Huxley(1825-1895),British biologist.

Quote by Dick Armey

Three groups spend other people's money:children,thieves,politicians.All three need supervision.-Dick Armey

Two great quotes for Friday

1.Every custom was once an eccentricity.-Holbrook Jackson(1874-1948),British journalist. 2.I would rather regret the things I have done than the things that I have not.-Lucille Ball

Two great quotes

1.Everybody needs his memories.They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.-Saul Bellow(1915-2005),Canadian-born U.S.writer 2.Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another,''What!You too?I thought I was the only one.''-C.S.Lewis

Slogan I saw on a T-shirt two days ago

Better laid than never.-Slogan I saw on a T-shirt two days ago

Quote by Marlon Brando

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.-Marlon Brando

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Interesting Chinese proverb

Looking for fish?Don't climb a tree.-Chinese proverb

Two more great quotes

1.When a thing has been said and well,have no scruple.Take it and copy it.-Anatole France 2.Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.-Gothold Lessing

Two great quotes

1.If the laws could speak for themselves,they would complain of the lawyers.-George Savile 2.If you can't change your fate,change your attitude.-Amy Tan