Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.[Victor Hugo] Quote:A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.[Dave Barry] Quote:Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.[Dave Barry] Quote:'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.[Dave Barry] Quote:Drug testing is very big in football. This is because football players are Role Models for young people. All you young people out there want to grow up and have enormous necks and get knee operations as often as haircuts. That's why the people in charge of football don't want you to associate it with drugs. They want you to associate it with alcohol.[Dave Barry] Quote:In some versions of my original contest column I had proposed, in a lighthearted manner, that we reduce the deficit by 'selling unnecessary states such as Oklahoma to the Japanese.' This caused a number of Oklahomans to send in letters containing many correctly spelled words and making the central lighthearted point that I am a jerk. They also sent me official literature stating that Oklahoma has enormous quantities of culture in the form of ballet, Oral Roberts, etc., and that the Official State Reptile -- I am not making this up -- is something called the 'Mountain Boomer.' So I apologize to Oklahoma, and as a token of my sincerity I'm willing to sell my state, Florida, to the Japanese, assuming nobody objects to the fact that Japan would suddenly become the most heavily armed nation on Earth.[Dave Barry] Quote:Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.[Mark Twain] Quote:Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.[Mark Twain] Quote:The greatest remedy for anger is delay.[Thomas Paine] Quote:I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.[Thomas Edison] Quote:The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.[Steve Martin] Quote:Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.[Aristotle] Quote:What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.[Mother Teresa] Quote:The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.[Laurence Peter] Quote:I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.[Thomas Paine] Quote:The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.[Daniel Webster] Quote:The greatest pleasure of life is love.[William Temple] Quote:Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] 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:Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.[Adam Smith] Quote:Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.[Brian Tracy] Quote:Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.[Mark Twain] Quote:The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.[Albert Einstein] Quote:A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not.[Harry Truman] Quote:All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.'[Ted Williams] Quote:The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.[Plato] Quote:Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously![Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. [John Henry Cardinal Newman] Quote:The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. [Jawaharlal Nehru] Quote:Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right? Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. [Sir William Osler] Quote:The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. [Thomas Carlyle] Quote:The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. [Cicero] Quote:History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. [Cicero] Quote:We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. [Henri Matisse] Quote:Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. [Isaac Asimov] Quote:America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. [Arnold Toynbee] Quote:Live well. It is the greatest revenge. [The Talmud] Quote:Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. [Dave Barry] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. [Aristotle] Quote:Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. [Aristotle] Quote:Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. [Aristotle] Quote:I know indeed what evil I intend to do,<br>but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,<br>fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. [Euripides] Quote:The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. [William James] Quote:The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. [Penn Jillette] Quote:The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. [Sophocles] Definitions of: testDefinition: A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.Definition: Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test. Definition: Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love. Definition: That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard. Definition: Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion. Definition: Judgment; distinction; discrimination. Definition: A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt. Definition: A set of questions to be answered or problems to be solved, used as a means to measure a person's knowledge, aptitude, skill, intelligence, etc.; in school settings, synonymous with examination or exam; as, an intelligence test. Also used attributively; as a test score, test results. Definition: A witness. Definition: The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals. Definition: The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm. |
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