Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it;[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes.[Dave Barry] Quote:A witty saying proves nothing.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author?s explanations, it never should have been published.[Archibald MacLeish] Quote:In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.[Colin Powell] Quote:I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.[Mark Twain] Quote:Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:What is now proved was once only imagined.[William Blake] Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon] Quote:Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.[Christopher Marlowe] Quote:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote:Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.[Adam Smith] Quote:No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.[Albert Einstein] Quote:'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.[Thomas Paine] Quote:...a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. [German Proverb] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. [Ann Landers] Quote:Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. [Judith Martin] Quote:Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. [H. L. Mencken] Definitions of: roveDefinition: To draw through an eye or aperture.Definition: To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. Definition: To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning. Definition: To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. Definition: Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise. Definition: To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). Definition: The act of wandering; a ramble. |
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