Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I almost had a pyschic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.[Steven Wright] Quote:No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.[Buckminster Fuller] Quote:Absence is to love as wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small and kindles the great.[Roger de Bussy-Rabutin] Quote:Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.[Saint Augustine] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.[Sydney Smith] Quote:If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.[Dave Barry] Quote:My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.[Dave Barry] Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.[John Donne] Quote:It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody - and we are not naming names but this would be his wife - is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.[Dave Barry] Quote:Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.[Edmund Burke] Quote:In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.[Aristotle] Quote:My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.[Aristotle] Quote:Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.[Mark Twain] Quote:Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.[Mark Twain] Quote:He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.[Thomas Paine] Quote:It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.[George Washington] Quote:My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.[George Washington] Quote:A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't.[Edward A. Murphy] 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:When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.[Mark Twain] Quote:There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.[Steve Martin] Quote:That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.[Zsa Zsa Gabor] Quote:Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:I have a hobby...I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it...[Steven Wright] Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton] Quote:For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.[Edward Abbey] Quote:War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.[Mao Zedong] Quote:Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.[John Barrymore] Quote:That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.[Woody Allen] Quote:It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.[Anne Frank] Quote:The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.[Daniel Webster] Quote:My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-five now, and we don't know where the hell she is.[Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:I just finished my first book. Pretty soon, I'm gonna read another.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.[Gloria Steinem] Quote:A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.[Woody Allen] Quote:Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.[Joseph Addison] Quote:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again.[Jack Handey] Quote:When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, 'I like mayonnaise.' She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.[Jack Handey] Quote:You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.[Orson Welles] Quote:A man doesnt want a child he is a dead beat dad. A woman doesnt want a child she is pro choice.[Author Unknown] Quote:Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.[Henny Youngman] Quote:Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. [Solomon Short] Quote:The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. [Havelock Ellis] Quote:Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. [Ernest Hemingway] Quote:A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. [Edmund Burke] Quote:If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. [Carl Jung] Quote:The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. [Sir William Osler] Quote:Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. [Mark Twain] Quote:The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. [Ann Landers] Quote:Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The basis of optimism is sheer terror. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. [Confucius] Quote:I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others. [Dag Hammarskjold] Quote:An honor is not diminished for being shared. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. [Dorothy L. Sayers] Quote:Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. [John Adams] Definitions of: sheDefinition: This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.Definition: A woman; a female; -- used substantively. |
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